Hi! We are trying to implement search suggestion/autocomplete functionality. We want to fetch after 3+ letters only. Is it possible, if it is, how to do it? Dependencies: “react-instantsearch-dom”: “^6.21.1", “typesense-instantsearch-adapter”: “^2.2.0" Typesense schema:

type Word = {

w: string;

lang: string;

};

import React, { useState } from "react";
import { SearchInput } from "../../components";
import TypesenseInstantsearchAdapter from "typesense-instantsearch-adapter";
import { InstantSearch } from "react-instantsearch-dom";

const Page = () => {
  const typesenseInstantSearchAdapter = new TypesenseInstantsearchAdapter({
    server: {
      apiKey: `${process.env.API_KEY}`,
      nodes: [
        {
          host: `${process.env.HOST}`,
          port: `${process.env.PORT}`,
          protocol: `https`,
        },
      ],
    },
    additionalSearchParameters: {
      queryBy: "word",
      perPage: 8, // we've tried perPage: search.length < 3 ? 0 : 8, but that causes re-renders and doesn't solve the problem since it still fetches.
    },
  });

  const [search, setSearch] = useState("");

  return (
    <div className="flex justify-center">
      <InstantSearch
        indexName="words"
        searchClient={typesenseInstantSearchAdapter.searchClient}
      >
        <SearchInput
          setSearch={setSearch}
          search={search}
          button={true}
          reload={false}
        />
      </InstantSearch>
    </div>
  );
};

export default Page;

Thanks in advance for any tips!

@Denis V. Here's how to do this: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/troubleshooting/faq/react/#how-to-search-from-the-n-th-character You would have to replace "algoliaClient" with the

searchClient

that comes with the Typesense adapter

Thanks @Jason Bosco! Managed to get it working. Another questions: Is there another way to create the current searchbox + hits component without nesting the components? That would give us full control over the state? Is it possible to pass down react hooks as props to components which use connectSearchBox or connectHits? Thanks!

I'm not too sure about this answer to this @Denis V. I haven't used react-instantsearch extensively myself. I'd recommend looking at Algolia's forums / github repos to see if this is possible