Anyone done this?
I have an auto complete field which is getting data from an API call.
(Note: I have saved the JSON to the file system as this data doesn’t change often)
So, I imagine the best way to do this is pre-populate the search list with an API call.
Then pre-load the JSON to a variable which will be available to the Autocomplete input box.
My other plan was to only search when the user types +3 chars.
I notice there are many plugins which do this including jQuery-Ui.