React Search Bar Autocomplete Tutorial
Learn how to build a React Search Bar with Autocomplete completely from scratch — no external libraries. In this step-by-step tutorial, we implement debounced search, dropdown suggestions, keyboard navigation (ArrowUp, ArrowDown, Enter, Escape), click-outside detection, scroll-into-view behavior, and selecting items with full UX.
This video is perfect for React beginners and intermediate developers who want to understand how to build a real search component using React hooks, useState, useRef, and useEffect.
Timestamps:
00:00 — Intro
00:47 — Setting up the project
06:03 — Creating state variables
08:17 — Creating references (useRef)
10:04 — Implementing debounced search
15:19 — Resetting keyboard selection when dropdown opens/closes or suggestions change
16:02 — Detecting clicks outside to close the dropdown
18:22 — Scrolling the active/hovered item into view
19:55 — Creating the item selection function (choose)
21:49 — Implementing full keyboard navigation (ArrowUp, ArrowDown, Enter, Escape)
26:20 — Quick recap of all features so far
29:07 — Starting the UI layout
29:56 — Building the search input
34:12 — Rendering and showing the dropdown list
42:54 — Displaying detailed info for a selected product
46:19 — Final testing, fixing small bugs, and outro
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