[Koha-devel] Replacing jQueryUI autocomplete

[dcook at prosentient.com.au]

Sadly, I don't have anything useful to add about autocomplete libraries, but you've sent me down an interesting rabbit hole about jQuery UI! 

I won't bore you with my journey, but after reading through a few big conversations I wound up at the jQuery UI Github and I was surprised that there's been a lot of activity: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commits/main. There's even a new alpha release: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/releases. 

Everything was done by Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek and looking into him led me to this really interesting write up: https://github.com/readme/stories/michal-golebiowski-owczarek

Probably still a good idea to move away from jquery-ui as it probably is dead, but interesting to see him breathing some life into the project after 5 years of dormancy. 

I'm tempted to shoot him a Twitter DM to see what his plans are. 

David Cook
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-----Original Message-----
From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of Owen Leonard
Sent: Thursday, 12 August 2021 3:41 AM
To: Koha Devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: [Koha-devel] Replacing jQueryUI autocomplete

We're making progress towards a replacement for the jQueryUI datepicker component: Bug 28376, "Replace obsolete jquery-ui-timepicker-addon"
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28376

I think it would be a good idea to look at replacing the rest of the jQueryUI components we use, since jQueryUI appears to be a dead project. I've been looking at this as a replacement for jQueryUI's
autocomplete:

https://tarekraafat.github.io/autoComplete.js/

It's small, seems fast, and has been around for several years, with its last release happening last month. I'm still testing whether it's missing any functionality we need, but I thought before I get too far I would ask:

Does anyone have any experience with this project?

Does anyone have any other autocomplete libraries they've used and would recommend?

Thanks,

  Owen

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