How to prevent InstantSearch from loading the initial hits before query?

[tom43983]

Hello, I am using InstantSearch for Vue. Everything works great, but the component loads all indexed documents on page load. In some indexes I have thousands of documents and I would like to prevent IS to load them all on the frontend on initial page load. So only loading the hits when a user actually enters a query. Is this possible in a simple way?

[Haroenv]

InstantSearch doesn't load all hits, but only the first page, so there's not thousands of items loaded, but the hitsPerPage (default 20). If you want to hide the hits on empty query you can follow this guide: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/going-further/conditional-display/vue/#handling-empty-queries