💬 Feedback - Autocomplete

[AndrewLeedham]

Forma 36 component feedback

There is currently no way to defer/debounce updates to items because their internal rendering is dependent on inputValue.

Essentially, I was trying to improve performance of an Autocomplete input that has several thousand items by adding useDeferredValue from React 18 to de-prioritise the dropdown updates over the input updating as a user is typing. However, after implementing this it was not giving the performance gains I was expecting. Doing some performance profiling, this seems to be because AutocompleteItems is re-rendering every-time inputValue changes to include the highlighting for each item, meaning whatever I do the dropdown will always be re-rendered for every inputValue change.

[Lelith]

Hey Andrew, thank you for your feedback. The Autocomplete component is a candidate for a major update in the next version. But we do not yet have a proper roadmap for forma36 v5, so i can't give any dates when it will happen.

In the meantime i can only recommend you, trying to leverage the multiselect component (if you have a multi-select case) or recreate the behaviour using the popover component with an text-input field.

[AndrewLeedham]

Thanks for the response @Lelith. The performance issues aren't urgent, so will probably wait for v5. For context, the reason I am using Autocomplete is because it is suggested when migrating from v3's dropdown.

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