textcomplete vs Choices.js

textcomplete

Autocomplete for HTMLTextAreaElement and more. (by yuku)

Autocomplete

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yuku.takahashi.coffee

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Choices.js

A vanilla JS customisable select box/text input plugin ⚡️ (by jshjohnson)

Form Widgets Autocomplete Select select-multiple Options dropdown-menus Inputs Select2 JavaScript vanilla-js Selectbox Choices Choicesjs Choice select-one

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choices-js.github.io

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textcomplete		Choices.js
	Project
1	Mentions	6
1,734	Stars	6,009
-	Growth	0.9%
3.5	Activity	0.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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textcomplete

Posts with mentions or reviews of textcomplete. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Show dropdown when user presses a sequence of characters
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 12 Mar 2021

Choices.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Choices.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-21.

Rails 7 SelectBox with Search
2 projects | /r/rails | 21 Oct 2022
How does jQuery class selector return an object?
2 projects | /r/jquery | 13 Oct 2022

bootstrap-select is a jQuery plugin, thus it needs jQuery as a dependency. If you can’t use jQuery, you need something similar to bootstrap-select without dependencies (also called Vanilla JS). https://choices-js.github.io/Choices/ or https://tom-select.js.org/ might work for you.
Looking for a library similar to select2 but without jquery requirement
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 4 Jun 2022

You may check the https://github.com/Choices-js/Choices library.
Customize select with vanilla JavaScript
3 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2022

If this approach does not suit you, then you need to make your own. There are ready-made solutions: — Select2 in jQuery; — Chosen in jQuery; — Choices in JavaScript without deps.
Rails7, Choices.js, importmap-rails, stimulus-rails got "does not provide an export named default" error
2 projects | /r/rails | 6 Apr 2022

I want to implement Choices.js on Rails7 with importmap, stimulus but got error like below.
Selectra - A custom select box in vanilla JS
1 project | /r/javascript | 18 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing textcomplete and Choices.js you can also consider the following projects:

autocomplete - 🔮 Fast and full-featured autocomplete library

select2 - Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.

searchkit - Search UI for Elasticsearch & Opensearch. Compatible with Algolia's Instantsearch and Autocomplete components. React & Vue support

selectize.js - Selectize is the hybrid of a textbox and <select> box. It's jQuery based, and it has autocomplete and native-feeling keyboard navigation; useful for tagging, contact lists, etc.

inshellisense - IDE style command line auto complete

JavaScript-autoComplete - An extremely lightweight and powerful vanilla JavaScript completion suggester.

laravel-simple-select - Laravel Simple Select inputs component for Blade and Livewire.

chosen - Deprecated - Chosen is a library for making long, unwieldy select boxes more friendly.

typeahead.js - typeahead.js is a fast and fully-featured autocomplete library

django-select2 - This is a Django integration for Select2

Amazon Autocomplete JS Plugin - 🚀 Unlock the full power of the Amazon autocompletion engine right into your search input. JavaScript Plugin.

tom-select - Tom Select is a lightweight (~16kb gzipped) hybrid of a textbox and select box. Forked from selectize.js to provide a framework agnostic autocomplete widget with native-feeling keyboard navigation. Useful for tagging, contact lists, etc.