Here on my blog I have a site search. Before you search, there’s autocomplete. The autocomplete is solved by using downshift in React and on the backend, there’s an API api v1 typeahead?q bla. Up until today, that backend was powered by Elasticsearch. Now it’s powered by PostgreSQL. Here’s how I...

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