While working on a side-project to better navigate and search through my record collection, I found myself in need of a rich search input: one that accepts free-form text alongside structured filters like artist:“Aphex Twin” or label:“Warp Records” — You know, like the one you see on GitHub when searching/filtering issues. When I quickly realized a standalone custom element for this didn’t exist yet, I nerd sniped myself into building curating one.
  • danA
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    2 months ago

    We tried something like this at work, but users get confused compared to a more traditional tokenized filter UI, where filters are delineated better and each filter has an x next to it to remove just that filter. People aren’t used to having multiple filters in one search field, unless it’s just doing fulltext search across everything.

    I know Github does this, but Github users are a small subset of the population.