Feature - Event location search

[chrismclarke]

Component infos

Description

Location lookup and autocomplete.

Page related

Will be used in :

• Events module (and likely later others)

Example(s)

https://community.algolia.com/places/

Build suggestion

For the sake of early convenience and as we already have algolia will use algolia places api. More analysis should be carried out in the future on the pricing model (100,000 per month free, then $0.40c per 1,000), alternatives could include own implementation of elasticsearch on top of osm data, google apis or similar

[chrismclarke]

Note, had first gone for existing implementation of algolia-places-react, however this feels like a very thin wrapper over the default api and makes it more restrictive to use custom styling so will implement from scratch (that way can also add debounce to the search autocomplete to save on search quota)

[chrismclarke]

implementation in, have included debounce method to help limit the number of request