How to do server side autocompletion (networking parts)

from blog meain/blog, | ↗ original
So, recently I had to create an autocompletion for a chat app at work. We did not need anything fancy for the first cut. Sounded like a simple project. This was in React I initially thought of pulling in an existing library for it, but our requirements needed some special kind of autocompletion menu. Let me tell you what I mean by that. We build...