Switching Search Client Modes with react-instantsearch-dom
TLDR Zeyu asked about switching searchClient modes. Jason suggested re-instantiating Instantsearch.js and dynamically rendering widgets on button click.
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May 24, 2023 (6 months ago)
Zeyu
Zeyu
05:46 PMI’m trying to use both normal search and vector search. A user can switch different “mode” when searching. However, I’m not sure how to switch between two searchClient by clicking a button. What is the best practice here?
Jason
Jason
05:55 PMYou would have re-instantiate all of Instantsearch.js along with the search client when the button is clicked
05:55
Jason
05:55 PMSo you’d want to move all of the initialization code into a function, and call that function both on page load and also on button click
Zeyu
Zeyu
06:15 PMwe are using react-instantsearch-dom，and we wish to click the button within SearchComponent
Jason
Jason
06:51 PMIt would be a similar concept - you would have to render the widgets dynamically and have them be re-rendered when the button is pressed, by may be attaching a variable as the react component’s key and changing this variables value when the button is pressed
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