kbar VS cmdk

The nice one I found that could do this is, kbar, and It cool, but I use Svelte not React. Lucky for us Svelte devs, I took on the job to port something similar to Svelte, a package that Is designed to just be plugged and played.

There’s an open source project for this: https://kbar.vercel.app/

There are many command palette implementations in JavaScript. Some are used with specific frameworks. For example, kbar is a React component and spotlight is a Laravel component. I wanted one that would work with Vanilla JavaScript. I identified two candidates:

You can either build a command palette yourself from scratch by using Cmdk or Kbar, or go with the SaaS route (e.g Magny) in case you want something readily baked.

I also added a Cmd+K interface to my site to make mouse-less navigation easier. It’s made using kbar and styles using Tailwind CSS. Here is what it looks like -

With that, there are a few different approaches for adding a command menu to your website: you can use an open source library (like kmenu, cmdk, or kbar), use a proprietary tool such as CommandBar, or build your own. This tutorial focuses on building your own implementation, however you may not need to depending on whether or not you're satisfied with the other options available.

I also found this https://kbar.vercel.app/

kbar Fast, portable, and extensible cmd+k interface for your site.

The Combobox of shadcn/ui used in the above implementation is a wrapped version of cmdk’s Combobox. I wanted to change the logic of suggest, so I added my own implementation to the filter as described in cmdk’s documentation. It seems that sorting is also possible. For example,change https://github.com/armandsalle/my-site/blob/main/src/components/autocomplete.tsx#L88 to the following:

For a company of my size and varied requirements though, the ecosystem saves us months of work since there's always a library to help meet the requirements. A specific example recently would be the need for a command menu, with React we can just take one off the shelf like https://cmdk.paco.me/ that with 5.2k stars we can be confident is stable. Compared with Svelte's https://github.com/rohitpotato/svelte-command-palette with 140 stars there's just more risk when deploying to millions of users.

You can either build a command palette yourself from scratch by using Cmdk or Kbar, or go with the SaaS route (e.g Magny) in case you want something readily baked.

It was strongly inspired by my good friend Paco & Rauno's cmdk.paco.me project :)

cmdk - Fast, unstyled command menu React component.

With that, there are a few different approaches for adding a command menu to your website: you can use an open source library (like kmenu, cmdk, or kbar), use a proprietary tool such as CommandBar, or build your own. This tutorial focuses on building your own implementation, however you may not need to depending on whether or not you're satisfied with the other options available.