Overview

The ng2-typeahead is an Angular2 component designed to provide a typeahead or autocomplete functionality, enhancing user experience by offering suggestions based on user input. Though it was created to streamline the selection of items from a list, it's important to note that this package is no longer being actively developed. Despite its deprecated status, many developers may find value in its simple implementation for Angular applications.

Using ng2-typeahead, developers can easily integrate a clean and responsive typeahead feature into their projects with minimal effort. It allows for a customizable user experience by enabling the specification of both display and search properties while facilitating event handling through its defined directives.

Features

Simple Implementation: Integrates seamlessly into Angular2 applications with straightforward setup and usage.
Customizable List: Allows binding to a complete list of items, accommodating various data types.
Display Property: The capability to designate which property of an object is shown to users in the suggestions list, defaulting to 'name'.
Search Property: Easily configure which property of a list item to use for matching input against the list, with a default also set to 'name'.
Max Suggestions Control: Set the maximum number of suggestions displayed to users, with the default allowing for unlimited options.
Event Handling: Simplified handling of selection events with built-in support for detecting when a suggestion is selected.
Stylish UI Components: Comes with predefined CSS classes for easy styling of the typeahead input and suggestions.
Open Source License: Distributed under the MIT License, allowing for flexibility in usage and modifications by developers.

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Ng2 Typeahead