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react-instantsearch-hooks-web

react-instantsearch-hooks-web

React InstantSearch Hooks Web is an open-source React library that lets you create an instant search result experience using Algolia’s search API. It is part of the InstantSearch family:

Why

You should be using React InstantSearch Hooks Web if you want to:

Design search experiences with best practices
Customize your components at will
Follow React principles

Note: If you are working with React Native, or otherwise do not use the DOM, check out react-instantsearch-hooks instead.

Installation

React InstantSearch is available on the npm registry. It relies on algoliasearch to communicate with Algolia APIs.

yarn add algoliasearch react-instantsearch-hooks-web
# or
npm install algoliasearch react-instantsearch-hooks-web

Getting started

Using React InstantSearch Hooks Web is as simple as adding these components to your app:

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import algoliasearch from 'algoliasearch/lite';
import { InstantSearch, SearchBox, Hits } from 'react-instantsearch-hooks-web';

const searchClient = algoliasearch(
  'latency',
  '6be0576ff61c053d5f9a3225e2a90f76'
);

const App = () => (
  <InstantSearch
    indexName="bestbuy"
    searchClient={searchClient}
  >
    <SearchBox />
    <Hits />
  </InstantSearch>
);

To learn more about the library, follow the getting started guide.

Documentation

The documentation is available on algolia.com/doc.

Playground

You can get to know React InstantSearch on this playground.

Start by adding components and tweaking the display. Once you get more familiar with the library, you can learn more advanced concepts in our guides.

Contributing

We welcome all contributors, from casual to regular 💙

Bug report. Is something not working as expected? Send a bug report.
Feature request. Would you like to add something to the library? Send a feature request.
Documentation. Did you find a typo in the doc? Open an issue and we'll take care of it.
Development. If you don't know where to start, you can check the open issues that are tagged easy, the bugs or chores.

To start contributing to code, you need to: