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lucaong / minisearch

Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node
https://lucaong.github.io/minisearch/
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is it possible to make the records clickable? #61

Closed lindamacdonald closed 4 years ago

lindamacdonald commented 4 years ago

hey there :) minisearch is really cool :) but is it possible to make the links clickable?

lucaong commented 4 years ago

Hi @creativemacmac , thanks for the kind words :)

Yes, it's definitely possible to make the search results clickable, but it's not something that the MiniSearch library directly takes care of: MiniSearch only implements the search engine logic, taking a query and returning an array of matching results. It does not provide any UI, which is up to the developer to implement.

The demo application in the examples folder of this repository, for example, uses React JS to implement the UI of a song search application. If you wanted to make the results clickable in the demo app, you would change the Song component and wrap it in a <a href="...">...</a>.

Note that MiniSearch does not depend in any way on React, so you can use your framework of choice (or no framework at all) for the UI. That's also why MiniSearch does not come with a UI, and leaves the task to you. That said, it would be nice to have search UI libraries for popular frameworks like React, Vue, etc. based on MiniSearch :)

Or did I misunderstand your question completely?

lindamacdonald commented 4 years ago

Hi again

No you got me completely right and thanks a gazilion for your thorough reply :) Minisearch is phenomenal and love that it's platform agnostic (react, vue, angular) BUT I will see if I can do some handy dandy designs with vue and react at (am not too comfortable with angular) and I'll place them on your github repo ;) will go rave about minisearch to everyone I know!! :) Please keep up the good work :)

lucaong commented 4 years ago

Really glad you like it :) thanks for the support!