Overview

The Vue-Bootstrap-Typeahead is an autocomplete/typeahead component built with Bootstrap 4 and Vue 2. It provides a simple list-group based typeahead functionality for better user experience. This project is no longer actively maintained but offers useful features for implementing autocomplete functionality in web applications.

Features

• List-group based typeahead: Utilizes Bootstrap 4 for styling and Vue 2 for functionality.
• Easy installation: Available on NPM with minified UMD and CommonJS builds.
• Customizable appearance: Allows configuration of input-group size, background color, text color, and more.
• Data handling: Works with already loaded API responses in array format for flexibility.
• Event handling: Provides events like hit when an autocomplete item is selected and input for two-way binding with v-model.
• Slots support: Offers prepend and append slots for customizing the appearance with buttons or other markup.
• Scoped slots: Allows the use of a scoped slot called suggestion for defining custom content for suggestion list items.

Installation

To install the Vue-Bootstrap-Typeahead from NPM, you can follow these steps:

1. Install the package:

npm install vue-bootstrap-typeahead

2. Import and register the component in your Vue project:

import Typeahead from 'vue-bootstrap-typeahead'
Vue.component('typeahead', Typeahead)

3. Use the component in your template with the required data attribute:

<typeahead :data="yourDataArray"></typeahead>

Summary

The Vue-Bootstrap-Typeahead is a useful autocomplete component that offers simple integration with Vue projects and provides flexibility in data handling and appearance customization. While it may not be actively maintained, it can still be a valuable tool for adding autocomplete functionality to web applications.