autocomplete

Our autocomplete tool can be found on Heroku here!

What?

Create an autocomplete search bar

Why?

To practice node and writing back-end things.

How?

Front-end

Create webpage with input field to submit
XHR on keypress
Update
with retrieved search suggestions

Back-end

Import word list as variable (API? txt file?) (pair A)
Create end point for requests (a server) (pair B)
Send response of search suggestions back to front-end

Testing

Unit testing as we go

Stretch Goals

Modularise files
Set up Continuous integration with Travis, and code coverage using Codecov and istanbul.
Look at categorising words ie. trousers in Menswear

Setup

To install npm dependencies:

npm i

To run the server:

npm run devStart

To run tests:

npm test

To check code coverage run:

npm run coverage