Search

We will create a <Header> component for your application with Ant Design's <AutoComplete> component. We will now examine how to search within the application with this component.

To do this, let's first create our <Header> component.

src/components/header.tsx

import { Layout, AutoComplete, Input } from 'antd'
import { SearchOutlined } from '@ant-design/icons'

export const Header: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <Layout.Header
      style={{
        padding: '0px 24px',
        backgroundColor: '#FFF',
      }}
    >
      <AutoComplete
        style={{ width: '100%', maxWidth: '550px' }}
        filterOption={false}
      >
        <Input
          size="large"
          placeholder="Search posts or categories"
          suffix={<SearchOutlined />}
        />
      </AutoComplete>
    </Layout.Header>
  )
}

We created the <Header> component as we want it to appear. We have not done anything for any search process at this stage. We just created the UI.

note

Let's not forget to pass the <Header> component to the <Layout> component in App.tsx as below.

src/App.tsx

import { Refine } from '@refinedev/core'
import { Layout } from '@refinedev/antd'
import dataProvider from '@refinedev/simple-rest'

import '@refinedev/antd/dist/reset.css'

import { Header } from 'components'

const API_URL = 'https://api.fake-rest.refine.dev'

const App: React.FC = () => {
  return (
    <Refine
      dataProvider={dataProvider(API_URL)}
      /* ... */
    >
      <Layout Header={Header}>{/* ... */}</Layout>
    </Refine>
  )
}

export default App

Now let's get our <AutoComplete> input ready to search. So, let's fetch our posts according to the value entered in our input.

To fetch more than one record, we will use the useList data hook, and we will filter and fetch this data according to the search value.

Before we start, let's create the interfaces of our <AutoComplete>'s options property and the post source.

src/interfaces/index.d.ts

export interface IPost {
  id: number
  title: string
}

export interface ICategory {
  id: number
  title: string
}

export interface IOptionGroup {
  value: string
  label: string | React.ReactNode
}

export interface IOptions {
  label: string | React.ReactNode
  options: IOptionGroup[]
}

src/components/header.tsx

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
import { useList } from '@refinedev/core'
import { Layout, AutoComplete, Input, Icons, Typography } from 'antd'
import routerProvider from '@refinedev/react-router-v6'

const { Link } = routerProvider
const { Text } = Typography
const { SearchOutlined } = Icons

import { IOptions, IPost } from 'interfaces'

// To be able to customize the option title
const renderTitle = (title: string) => {
  return (
    <Text strong style={{ fontSize: '16px' }}>
      {title}
    </Text>
  )
}

// To be able to customize the option item
const renderItem = (title: string, resource: string, id: number) => {
  return {
    value: title,
    label: (
      <Link to={`/${resource}/show/${id}`}>
        <Text>{title}</Text>
      </Link>
    ),
  }
}

export const Header: React.FC = () => {
  const [value, setValue] = useState<string>('')
  const [options, setOptions] = useState<IOptions[]>([])

  const { refetch: refetchPosts } = useList<IPost>({
    resource: 'posts',
    filters: [{ field: 'title', operator: 'contains', value }],
    queryOptions: {
      enabled: false,
      onSuccess: (data) => {
        const postOptionGroup = data.data.map((item) =>
          renderItem(item.title, 'posts', item.id),
        )
        if (postOptionGroup.length > 0) {
          setOptions([
            {
              label: renderTitle('Posts'),
              options: postOptionGroup,
            },
          ])
        }
      },
    },
  })

  useEffect(() => {
    setOptions([])
    refetchPosts()
  }, [value])

  return (
    <Layout.Header
      style={{
        padding: '0px 24px',
        backgroundColor: '#FFF',
      }}
    >
      <AutoComplete
        style={{ width: '100%', maxWidth: '550px' }}
        filterOption={false}
        options={options}
        onSearch={(value: string) => setValue(value)}
      >
        <Input
          size="large"
          placeholder="Search posts or categories"
          suffix={<SearchOutlined />}
        />
      </AutoComplete>
    </Layout.Header>
  )
}

We created states to dynamically manage the value and options properties of the <AutoComplete> component. The useList hook is triggered whenever the value changes. Likewise, the filter used to fetch the data is updated each time the value changes.

Search value is currently only searched and fetched inside posts. Let's update our code to search both posts and categories according to the search value.

src/components/header.tsx

...
export const Header: React.FC = () => {
    const [value, setValue] = useState<string>("");
    const [options, setOptions] = useState<IOptions[]>([]);

    const { refetch: refetchPosts } = useList<IPost>({
        resource: "posts",
        filters: [{ field: "title", operator: "contains", value }],
        queryOptions: {
            enabled: false,
            onSuccess: (data) => {
                const postOptionGroup = data.data.map((item) =>
                    renderItem(item.title, "posts", item.id),
                );
                if (postOptionGroup.length > 0) {
                    setOptions((prevOptions) => [
                        ...prevOptions
                        {
                            label: renderTitle("Posts"),
                            options: postOptionGroup,
                        },
                    ]);
                }
            },
        },
    });

    const { refetch: refetchCategories } = useList<ICategory>({
        resource: "categories",
        filters: [{ field: "q", operator: "contains", value }],
        queryOptions: {
            enabled: false,
            onSuccess: (data) => {
                const categoryOptionGroup = data.data.map((item) =>
                    renderItem(item.title, "categories", item.id),
                );
                if (categoryOptionGroup.length > 0) {
                    setOptions((prevOptions) => [
                        ...prevOptions,
                        {
                            label: renderTitle("Categories"),
                            options: categoryOptionGroup,
                        },
                    ]);
                }
            },
        },
    });

    useEffect(() => {
        setOptions([]);
        refetchPosts();
        refetchCategories();
    }, [value]);

    return (
        <AntdLayout.Header
            style={{
                padding: "0px 24px",
                backgroundColor: "#FFF",
            }}
        >
            ...
        </AntdLayout.Header>
    );
};

tip

By doing the same implementation on your other resources, you can search for more than one resource with a value.

Example

VIEW SOURCE CODE →

RUN IN YOUR LOCAL

npm create refine-app@latest -- --example search