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.

Aug 02, 2022 (13 months ago)
Digamber
01:30 PMI 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
Jason
01:35 PMDigamber
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Aug 03, 2022 (13 months ago)
Digamber
05:52 AMusing 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
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