I have a search bar and I want to search as the user types from the REST API endpoint. There is a workflow on the search bar for “on change” to re-fetch the collection, utilizing the “search bar - value” in the endpoint The problem: It is VERY glitchy. Sometimes as I’m not even typing anything, t…

[image] kevinwasie: utilizing the “search bar - value” in the endpoint Hi Kevin, You were right to do the filtering on the server side considering the huge payload. The issue here is that you are using the “search bar - value” in the endpoint. The search bar element has a nice debounce fea…

I guess that I should ask this also … Is filtering on the server side the best way to do this? Or should I do it on the client side with a filter in WeWeb? I was going to query the API on change because the initial query will return 1000’s of results. I thought it would be better to only send the f…

It depends how quickly your backend is responding. Also, we setup a debounce by default to prevent overloading the browser with events :wink: On a small sample of data (<100), I would do it only client-side. This will prevent glitches!

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kevinwasie (Kevin Wasie) May 11, 2022, 12:19pm 5

Thank you. That resolved the double loading. Awesome!

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