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