# AutoSugges — Add AutoSugges autocomplete to a React app ## How do I add autocomplete to a React app? Create one client with createAutosuggesClient using your runtime base URL and publishable key, call bootstrap() once to read the list's query policy, then render the Autocomplete component from @autosugges/client/react with the client as its source. Debounce, request cancellation, keyboard navigation and ARIA roles are already wired. You are integrating AutoSugges, a hosted autocomplete and list-of-values service. Everything you need is in this message; do not guess at anything it does not state, and do not fetch documentation to fill a gap — ask instead. ## Objective A working, accessible autocomplete input in a React application, querying a published AutoSugges list at the edge, with the list’s own query policy honoured and every failure rendered from the typed error code. ## Environment - Target framework/runtime: React. - SDK package: `@autosugges/client` (version 0.1.1). - Runtime HTTP API version: `v1`. - Install: npm install @autosugges/client ## Prerequisites - An AutoSugges list that has been published at least once. An unpublished list has nothing to serve yet and returns `list_not_published`. - The publishable key issued for the application that will query it. - The runtime base URL for the environment you are targeting. AutoSugges does not have one fixed public hostname baked into the SDK — the dashboard's integration panel shows the origin for your environment. - React 18 or newer. ## Values you must supply - `baseUrl` (required, public by design) — placeholder `YOUR_RUNTIME_BASE_URL`. The origin of the AutoSugges runtime — scheme and host, no trailing slash and no path. The SDK appends `/v1/...` itself. Source: The AutoSugges dashboard's integration panel, for the environment you are deploying to. - `publishableKey` (required, public by design) — placeholder `YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY`. Identifies the consumer, the application, the subscription, the canonical list and the query policy in a single server-side lookup. The client never supplies a list id, tenant id or version hash — if a generated integration is passing one of those, it is wrong. Source: The AutoSugges dashboard, under the application that will make the queries. - `accessToken` (optional, SECRET — server-side only) — placeholder `YOUR_SERVER_MINTED_ACCESS_TOKEN`. Only for a list whose policy requires a token. Short-lived, sent as `authorization: Bearer `, and never minted, stored or hardcoded in client code. Source: Your own backend, which mints it from your AutoSugges credentials. - The base URL below is still the literal placeholder `YOUR_RUNTIME_BASE_URL`. Ask the developer for their environment's runtime origin and substitute it; do not invent an autosugges.com hostname. ## Request contract The publishable key travels as a query parameter (or, for selection reports, a JSON body field) — NOT as an Authorization header. The Authorization header is reserved for the optional access token of a protected list. - `GET /v1/bootstrap?key=` — Resolves the list identity, the active version hash and the effective query policy for this key. Call once per session before querying. Key placement: `key` query parameter. Headers: `x-request-id`: a per-request correlation id (the SDK mints one automatically); `authorization: Bearer `: optional, and only for a list whose policy requires a token. - `GET /v1/query?key=&q=&locale=` — Returns the pre-ranked suggestions for one query. Key placement: `key` query parameter. Headers: `x-request-id`: a per-request correlation id; `authorization: Bearer `: optional, as above. - `POST /v1/selection` — Reports which suggestion the user chose, so ranking can improve. Optional: skipping it degrades ranking quality and nothing else. Key placement: `key` field of the JSON body, alongside `selectionId`, `queryRequestId`, `listId`, `itemId`, `query` and `position`. Headers: `content-type: application/json`; `x-request-id`. ## Policy that arrives from bootstrap — never hardcode these - `requestId` (string) — Correlation id for this bootstrap call. - `list.id` (string (UUID)) — The canonical list this key resolves to. Never supplied by the client. - `activeVersionHash` (string) — The published version currently serving. Compare it to a stored hash to decide whether a cached local copy is stale. - `queryPolicy.minQueryChars` (number) — Minimum characters before a query is legal. Never below 2, and never hardcoded — a shorter query is rejected and not billed. - `queryPolicy.debounceMs` (number) — How long to wait after the last keystroke before issuing a query. - `queryPolicy.defaultResultLimit` (number) — How many suggestions a list returns by default. Informational: the server already returns its ranked set, so the client does not send this back. - `queryPolicy.rememberLastSelection` (boolean) — Tenant policy for prefilling a previously chosen item. Treat anything other than literal `true` as off. ## What one suggestion looks like - `itemId` (string) — Stable identifier. Use it as the React/list key. - `value` (string) — The canonical value — what you store. - `displayValue` (string) — The locale-resolved label — what you render. Not the same field as `value`. - `displayOrder` (number) — The owner's configured display order. - `position` (number) — 1-based position in the returned ranking. - `ancestors` (array, optional) — The precomputed hierarchy chain, root first, excluding the item itself — `{ itemId, value, displayValue, hierarchyLevel? }`. Use it to auto-fill parent form fields. Absent when the item has no ancestors; never an empty array. ## Implementation steps 1. Create one client — Call createAutosuggesClient({ baseUrl, publishableKey }) once, at module scope, so it is not recreated on every render. 2. Bootstrap once — Call client.bootstrap() at startup. It resolves the list's real minQueryChars and debounceMs into client.policy; the component reads that live on every keystroke. 3. Render the component — Import Autocomplete from the @autosugges/client/react subpath — not from the package root, which is deliberately React-free — and pass the client as `source` and a real accessible `label`. 4. Handle the selection — onSelect receives (item, { ancestors }). Store item.value, render item.displayValue, and use ancestors to auto-fill parent fields without a second request. 5. Handle the failures — onError receives an AutosuggesError. Switch on error.code against the vocabulary below; never render a hand-written message. ## Code — `city-field.tsx` ```tsx import { useState } from 'react'; import { createAutosuggesClient } from '@autosugges/client'; import { Autocomplete } from '@autosugges/client/react'; // One client per app, created outside the component so it survives re-renders. const autosugges = createAutosuggesClient({ baseUrl: 'YOUR_RUNTIME_BASE_URL', publishableKey: 'YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY', }); // Reads the list's real minChars/debounce. Fire-and-forget: the // component works on documented fallbacks until this resolves, and the SDK has // already logged any failure once at its own boundary. void autosugges.bootstrap().catch(() => {}); export function CityField() { const [city, setCity] = useState(''); const [region, setRegion] = useState(''); const [errorCode, setErrorCode] = useState(); return ( <> { // item.value is what you store; item.displayValue is what was shown. // ancestors is the precomputed hierarchy chain, root first — use it to // auto-fill state/country fields without a second request. setCity(item.value); setRegion(ancestors.map((ancestor) => ancestor.displayValue).join(', ')); }} onError={(error) => { // error is an AutosuggesError. Switch on error.code — the codes and // their remediation are listed below. Never invent a message string. setErrorCode(error.code); }} /> {errorCode !== undefined &&

Lookup unavailable ({errorCode}).

} ); } ``` ## Security requirements - A publishable key is public by design. It is safe in client-side JavaScript, in a mobile bundle, and in a page a search engine can read. It is not a secret and does not need a proxy. - A publishable key is not a substitute for origin control: keys are bound to an allow-list of origins, and a request from an origin the tenant has not allowed is refused with `origin_not_allowed` and is not billed. Add the deploying site’s origin in the AutoSugges dashboard before going live. - Never place a secret key, a signing key, a service-role credential or a database URL in client code, in an environment variable prefixed for browser exposure, or in a prompt. Nothing in an AutoSugges browser or mobile integration needs one. - An access token (`authorization: Bearer …`) is only for a list whose policy requires one. It is short-lived, and it is minted by your own server from your own AutoSugges credentials — never in the browser, never hardcoded, never committed. - Do not log the raw query text or the response body. Log the typed error `code` and the `requestId`. - Both values in the snippet are public by design and belong in client code as written. If a generated integration adds a proxy route, an API secret or a server-side fetch "to protect the key", delete it — there is nothing to protect. ## Expected result Typing in the field produces a listbox of suggestions from the published list within the configured debounce, the field is fully keyboard-operable and announced by a screen reader, and selecting an option fires onSelect with the canonical item and its ancestors. ## Validation — do these before reporting success 1. Check 1 — Type fewer characters than the list’s minQueryChars and confirm no network request is made at all. 2. Check 2 — Type a query at or above minQueryChars and confirm exactly one GET to `/v1/query` per settled input, not one per keystroke. 3. Check 3 — Confirm the response items render `displayValue`, and that selecting one produces the value you expect in `onSelect`. 4. Check 4 — Operate the whole control with the keyboard only: ArrowDown/ArrowUp move the active option, Enter selects, Escape closes. 5. Check 5 — Temporarily set the publishable key to a wrong value and confirm the UI shows an error state driven by `invalid_key` rather than an empty list that looks like "no results". ## Error codes you must handle Every failure arrives as a typed code in the response body (and, through the SDK, as an `AutosuggesError` with that `code`). Switch on the code; never match on a message string. The codes most likely on this surface are: `invalid_key`, `origin_not_allowed`, `list_not_published`, `quota_exceeded`. The complete vocabulary: - `invalid_key` (HTTP 401, not retryable) — The publishable key is wrong, revoked or rotated. Check the key in the AutoSugges dashboard. Do not retry with the same key. - `origin_not_allowed` (HTTP 403, not retryable) — The requesting origin is not on this key's allow-list. Add the origin in the dashboard. Not billed. - `invalid_list` (HTTP 404, not retryable) — The key resolves to no list, or the list was deleted. Nothing to retry. - `subscription_required` (HTTP 403, not retryable) — The list is shared and this consumer has no active subscription to it. Subscribe, or use a list you own. - `list_not_published` (HTTP 409, not retryable) — The list exists but has never been published, so there is no artifact to serve. Publish it once from the dashboard. - `token_expired` (HTTP 401, not retryable) — The access token is past its expiry. Mint a fresh one on your server and retry once. Never extend expiry on the client. - `invalid_token` (HTTP 401, not retryable) — The access token failed signature or scope verification. Mint a new one; do not retry the same token. - `quota_exceeded` (HTTP 200, not retryable) — The allowance for this billing scope is spent. `details.scope` says which allowance — `subscription` or `key`. The response carries no items at all, real or synthetic: render an upgrade path, and do not feed it into selection analytics. It clears at the next billing period. - `query_too_short` (HTTP 200, not retryable) — The query is below the list's `minQueryChars` (`details.minQueryChars`). Do not issue the request at all until the input reaches it. Not billed. - `query_too_long` (HTTP 400, not retryable) — The query exceeds the server maximum (`details.maxQueryChars`). Trim the input before sending; this is a malformed request, not something a user types. - `invalid_request` (HTTP 400, not retryable) — The request is malformed — a missing parameter or an unusable value. `details` names what. Fix the call; retrying unchanged cannot help. - `rate_limited` (HTTP 429, retryable) — Too many requests for this key, subscription or IP. Honour the `retryAfter` seconds in the body before retrying, and check that the input is actually debounced. - `challenge_failed` (HTTP 403, not retryable) — A bot challenge was not satisfied on a session-establishing surface. Re-present the challenge. Not billed. - `publish_validation_failed` (HTTP 422, not retryable) — A publish was rejected by validation (duplicates, an unresolved parent, a hierarchy cycle). The previously active version keeps serving. Fix the data and publish again. - `compile_failed` (HTTP 500, retryable) — Compilation of a new version failed. The previously active version keeps serving; nothing at runtime changed. Retry the publish after fixing the reported cause. - `artifact_unavailable` (HTTP 503, retryable) — A published artifact could not be read at this edge, usually mid-propagation. Retryable: wait the `retryAfter` seconds and retry once. Do not render a partial or stale result set alongside a fresh one. - `resource_removed` (HTTP 404, not retryable) — The resource was deleted. Stop requesting it; there is nothing to retry. - `invalid_domain` (HTTP 400, not retryable) — The submitted domain or slug is not valid or is reserved. Choose another. - `domain_validation_failed` (HTTP 409, not retryable) — A custom-domain DNS or TLS validation did not complete. Re-check the DNS records shown in the dashboard, then revalidate. - `forbidden` (HTTP 403, not retryable) — Your account is signed in but your workspace role does not permit this action. Ask an owner or admin to change your role, or use an account that has it. - `internal_error` (HTTP 500, retryable) — An unexpected server-side failure. Report the `requestId` from the response. Retry at most once, with backoff. ## Notes - Never hardcode a minimum query length or a debounce interval. Both come from `client.policy`, which the SDK fills from the bootstrap response and updates in place. The constants the SDK falls back to before the first successful bootstrap are documented defaults, not the list’s real policy. - Render `displayValue`, store `value`. They differ: `displayValue` is resolved for the requested locale at compile time. - A selection report is optional. Omitting it costs ranking quality over time and nothing else; it is never required for a query to work. - The component renders its own ARIA combobox pattern. Do not add role="combobox" or aria-* attributes around it — you will produce a nested, conflicting pattern. ## Reference - React integration guide: https://docs.autosugges.com/integrations/react - All integration guides: https://docs.autosugges.com/integrations ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the minimum number of characters before a query runs? Two by default. A list owner can change the minimum, but it can never be 1. The client reads the real value from bootstrap and sends no request below it, so do not hardcode it. ### How long does the client wait after typing before it queries? 150 milliseconds by default. The value is delivered through bootstrap and a list owner can raise it, so the client uses the policy value rather than a constant. ### How many suggestions does a query return? Ten by default, unless the list owner sets a different default result limit. ### Where does the publishable key go? In the key query parameter of the request, for example /v1/query?key=YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY, never in a header. The key is public by design and safe in client code. Secret keys never belong in a browser or mobile bundle, and a proxy to hide the publishable key is unnecessary. ### What happens when my query quota runs out? The runtime returns a structured quota_exceeded response that carries no items and no placeholder suggestions, so exhaustion is never mistaken for no results. Render it from the typed error code and prompt an upgrade. ### Does AutoSugges work in React Native? Yes. The same client runs in React Native because its transport is the standard Fetch API, and @autosugges/client/native provides hooks and accessibility prop mappers for Expo and bare React Native apps. See the Expo guide. --- Canonical page: https://docs.autosugges.com/integrations/react