Lightweight select component for React

react-select-search

Lightweight select component for React.

Features

• Lightweight, with zero dependencies*
• Accessible
• Headless mode
• Basic HTML select functionality, including multiple
• Search/filter options
• Async options
• Apply renderers to change markup and behavior
• Keyboard support
• Group options with group names, you can search group names
• Fully stylable

*One optional dependency required for built-in fuzzy search

Demo

Install

Install it with npm (npm install react-select-search --save) and import it like you normally would.

Quick example

import SelectSearch from 'react-select-search';

/**
 * The options array should contain objects.
 * Required keys are "name" and "value" but you can have and use any number of key/value pairs.
 */
const options = [
    {name: 'Swedish', value: 'sv'},
    {name: 'English', value: 'en'},
    {
        type: 'group',
        name: 'Group name',
        items: [
            {name: 'Spanish', value: 'es'},
        ]
    },
];

/* Simple example */
<SelectSearch options={options} value="sv" name="language" placeholder="Choose your language" />

For examples you can take a look in the stories directory.

You will also need some CSS to make it look right. Example theme can be found in style.css.

Use with SSR

For use with SSR you might need to use the commonjs bundle (react-select-search/dist/cjs). If you want to utilise the example theme (style.css) you need to check if you're build script manipulates class names, for example minifies them. If that's the case, you can use CSS modules to get the class names from the style.css file and apply them using the className function. Example can be seen here as well as here https://react-select-search.com/?path=/story/custom--css-modules.

Headless mode with hooks

If you want complete control (more than styling and custom renderers) you can use hooks to pass data to your own components and build it yourself.

import React from 'react';
import { useSelect } from 'react-select-search';

const CustomSelect = ({ options, value, multiple, disabled }) => {
    const [snapshot, valueProps, optionProps] = useSelect({
        options,
        value,
        multiple,
        disabled,
    });

    return (
        <div>
            <button {...valueProps}>{snapshot.displayValue}</button>
            {snapshot.focus && (
                <ul>
                    {snapshot.options.map((option) => (
                        <li key={option.value}>
                            <button {...optionProps} value={option.value}>{option.name}</button>
                        </li>
                    ))}
                </ul>
            )}
        </div>
    );
};

Configuration

Below is all the available options you can pass to the component. Options without defaults are required.

The options object

The options object can contain any properties and values you like. The only required one is name.

Custom class names

If you set a string as the className attribute value, the component will use that as a base and BEM-ify the class names for all elements.
If you want to fully control the class names you can pass a function that takes a key and returns a class name. The following keys exists:

• container
• value
• input
• select
• options
• option
• group
• group-header
• is-selected
• is-highlighted
• is-loading
• has-focus

Custom renderers

If CSS isn't enough, you can also control the HTML for the different parts of the component.

The optionProps and the valueProps are needed for the component you render to work. For example:

<SelectSearch renderValue={(valueProps) => <input {...valueProps} />} />

Monkeypatch it if you need to but make sure to not remove important props.

The optionSnapshot is an object that contains the object state: { selected: bool, highlighted: bool }.

Get options

You can fetch options asynchronously with the getOptions property. You can either return options directly or through a Promise.

function getOptions(query) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        fetch(`https://www.thecocktaildb.com/api/json/v1/1/search.php?s=${query}`)
            .then(response => response.json())
            .then(({ drinks }) => {
                resolve(drinks.map(({ idDrink, strDrink }) => ({ value: idDrink, name: strDrink })))
            })
            .catch(reject);
    });
}

The function runs on each search query update, so you might want to throttle the fetches.
If you return a promise, the class is-searching will be applied to the main element, giving you a chance
to change the appearance, like adding a spinner. The property searching is also available in the snapshot that is sent to your render callbacks.

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