# Type-ahead search Rails + StimulusJS

**URL:** <https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/type-ahead-search-rails-stimulusjs/657>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 11, 2019, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/type-ahead-search-rails-stimulusjs/657 "2019-02-11T06:18:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/type-ahead-search-rails-stimulusjs/657/3 "2019-02-17T02:20:03Z")

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This is awesome!  
I’m curious, when developing this, had you come across either of these posts?

> [@Search autocomplete with Stimulus and Rails](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/search-autocomplete-with-stimulus-and-rails/519):
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> Hey All! I’ve created a simple search autocomplete example with [Stimulus](https://stimulusjs.org/) and Rails 5.2. Please check it on GitHub and let me know if you have any questions: [https://github.com/mrhead/stimulus-search](https://github.com/mrhead/stimulus-search)

> [@Autocomplete component with stimulus](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/autocomplete-component-with-stimulus/581):
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> Hi all, I’ve created a stimulus autocomplete components. It’s heavily based on [github’s autocomplete element](https://github.com/github/auto-complete-element), but uses stimulus instead of custom elements. At 1.5kB compressed it’s really lightweight. Check it out at

If so, I’d love to know what the key differences are!

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