Inspired by twitter.com's autocomplete search functionality, typeahead.js is a flexible JavaScript library that provides a strong foundation for building robust typeaheads.
The typeahead.js library consists of 2 components: the suggestion engine, Bloodhound, and the UI view, Typeahead. The suggestion engine is responsible for computing suggestions for a given query. The UI view is responsible for rendering suggestions and handling DOM interactions. Both components can be used separately, but when used together, they can provide a rich typeahead experience.
How you acquire typeahead.js is up to you.
Preferred method:
- Install with Bower:
$ bower install typeahead.js
Other methods:
- Download zipball of latest release.
- Download the latest dist files individually:
- bloodhound.js (standalone suggestion engine)
- typeahead.jquery.js (standalone UI view)
- typeahead.bundle.js (bloodhound.js + typeahead.jquery.js)
- typeahead.bundle.min.js
Note: both bloodhound.js and typeahead.jquery.js have a dependency on jQuery 1.9+.
For some working examples of typeahead.js, visit the examples page.
- Chrome
- Firefox 3.5+
- Safari 4+
- Internet Explorer 8+
- Opera 11+
NOTE: typeahead.js is not tested on mobile browsers.
For general questions about typeahead.js, tweet at @typeahead.
For technical questions, you should post a question on Stack Overflow and tag it with typeahead.js.
Discovered a bug? Please create an issue here on GitHub!
https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js/issues
For transparency and insight into our release cycle, releases will be numbered with the following format:
<major>.<minor>.<patch>
And constructed with the following guidelines:
- Breaking backwards compatibility bumps the major
- New additions without breaking backwards compatibility bumps the minor
- Bug fixes and misc changes bump the patch
For more information on semantic versioning, please visit http://semver.org/.
Tests are written using Jasmine and ran with Karma. To run
the test suite with PhantomJS, run $ npm test
.
If you plan on contributing to typeahead.js, be sure to read the contributing guidelines. A good starting place for new contributors are issues labeled with entry-level. Entry-level issues tend to require minor changes and provide developers a chance to get more familiar with typeahead.js before taking on more challenging work.
In order to build and test typeahead.js, you'll need to install its dev
dependencies ($ npm install
) and have grunt-cli
installed ($ npm install -g grunt-cli
). Below is an overview of the available
Grunt tasks that'll be useful in development.
grunt build
– Builds typeahead.js from source.grunt lint
– Runs source and test files through JSHint.grunt watch
– Rebuilds typeahead.js whenever a source file is modified.grunt server
– Serves files from the root of typeahead.js on localhost:8888. Useful for using test/playground.html for debugging/testing.grunt dev
– Runsgrunt watch
andgrunt server
in parallel.
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