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Solving Instant Search Reinstantiation Issues

TLDR Digamber inquired about destroying a instant search instance. Jason suggested several methods. Eventually, Digamber resolved it by using the dispose method.

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Aug 02, 2022 (13 months ago)

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Digamber

01:30 PM

Hey Guys,
I have instant search question i’ve been googling but didn’t get any results - is it possible to destroy an instant search instance ?
Use case is i have a menu of collections and I want to destroy and re-init the instant search instance

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Jason

01:35 PM

Could you try the standard JS delete keyword?

Digamber

01:37 PM

Do you mean to delete the widgets and hits manually ?

Jason

01:38 PM

Yeah, but I'm wondering if just deleting the main instantsearch object would suffice

Digamber

01:41 PM

Tried deleting main instantSeach object - that hasnt worked, and i am a bit wary of deleting manually as something might be skipped or overlooked

Jason

01:42 PM

What if you just assign a new instantsearch instance to the existing variable? May be the automated GC will take care of deleting the necessary stuff then

Digamber

01:43 PM

Tried doing that - hasnt worked, the widgets from previous instance still remain

Jason

01:46 PM

May be something like this: https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch.js/issues/1206#issuecomment-241670437

Digamber

01:56 PM

Thanks will check it out and will update here if i find a better solution too

01:56

Digamber

01:56 PM

Cheers

Aug 03, 2022 (13 months ago)

Digamber

05:52 AM

Hi, again so if anyone comes across this thread,
using the dispose method will work to remove all widgets from the search instance https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/widgets/instantsearch/js/#widget-param-dispose

Jason

04:06 PM

Good to know! Thanks Digamber!

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