Svelector

Work in progress: The library is still under development. Some API changes are to be expected and more features and customizations are coming soon.

Svelector is a flexible Select/Dropdown/AutoComplete component fully written from the ground up in Svelte 5. The component is also fully written in TypeScript giving the opportunity to warn developers about errors much faster.

This library is heavily inspired by the popular and well known "Svelecte". I have been using that library for very long, however as of today, it's currently lacking some reactivity in some case scenarios that can only work with native components that use the new runes system released with Svelte 5.

Demo (Sorry, it's very barebone. This is also a work in progress)

Features

• Single and multiple selection
• Remote data fetch using JSON
• Custom text extractor
• Custom value extractor
• Customizable value and text attribute
• Support simple items and object items
• Support using simple value and also the option as the value
• Can be disabled
• Smart list layout: automatically select the best position around the input to open the list. It can be top, bottom and even fullscreen depending on the scroll position and viewport size.

Missing features

• Customizable styles (Altought it can be overriden by css)
• Customizable list item snippet
• Customizable placeholder snippet
• Customizable single/multiple option snippet
• Lazy rendering
• Search within options
• Search with data fetch
• Pagination with data fetch
• Use native select under the hood for regular form usage
• Sorting items with drag and drop
• Creating new items
• Better keyboard accessibility
• Cancelling updates with onChange event
• Limitating the maximum of selectable options
• Custom options resolver
• More props to customize the general behavior of the dropdown

Building

Build the library:

npm run package

Build sveltekit showcase app:

npm run build

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.