ProfessionalWiki / ProfessionalWiki/Rules
Improve category search
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enhancement
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- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 3
- Forks
- 4
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
At the moment it seems to be doing only prefix search. If a category is Foo Bar Baz, it should show up in the suggestions when the user types Bar
Using the search API might be better (https://github.com/ProfessionalWiki/Rules/pull/56#event-18950488486)
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Research direction
Start in modules/ext.rules/utils/api.js at lines 48-58 and inspect how category suggestions currently perform prefix matching. Review the linked pull request event for the search API option. Done means typing “Bar” returns the category “Foo Bar Baz” in suggestions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100