React-select: [V2] [Feature Request] Ability to specify the minimum length for performing a search

[kevin-lindsay-1]

Looking for the ability to prevent the "search" option from occurring until you type in a specific number of characters.

I'm basically looking for the feature that already exists on React-Bootstrap-Typeahead:
https://ericgio.github.io/react-bootstrap-typeahead/#behaviors
minLength: Require minimum input before showing results

[nadeemkhedr]

you can do that manually in loadOptions no ? check the length of the query if less than expected return an empty promise

[kevin-lindsay-1]

Ah, didn't see that. Will use that in future; I've encountered similar components that do this strangely, though, and if you did something like input.value.length > 3, it updates strangely, because in those components, the input.value state (or what have you) is updated after the check, not before.

Thoughts on this would be appreciated.

[mixaildudin]

Like, really? Is this the true way of setting minimum input length? This looks too dirty for such a simple thing, and I cannot even imagine why not have this out of the box