Dev tools · September 23, 2020
Searchbox
A lightweight JavaScript library for building search UIs
Searchbox launched on September 23, 2020 with 134 votes, #231 of 3,898 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
What it does
Searchbox is a set of lightweight, performance focused libraries (16KB - 34KB Gzipped sizes) that enable a JavaScript developer to build rich Search UIs declaratively. Searchbox works with appbase.io (which can be used with any Elasticsearch cluster).
Searchbox is a lightweight and performance focused search UI component library to query and display results from your ElasticSearch index using declarative props. It
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