Implementation

This guide walks you through integrating Raffle’s API into a React application. You’ll learn how to fetch top questions, autocomplete suggestions, summary, and detailed search results step by step.
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1 - Setting Up the UI

Integrate Raffle’s API with React
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2 - Add Top Questions

Adding Top Questions with Raffle’s API.
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3 - Add Autocomplete

Adding Autocomplete with Raffle’s API.
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4 - Add Summary

Adding Summary with Raffle’s API.
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5 - Add Search Results

Adding Search Results with Raffle’s API.

Introduction

This guide provides a step-by-step approach to integrating Raffle’s API into a React application, enabling you to build a dynamic and user-friendly search experience. The key features of the API covered include:

  1. Top Questions: Retrieve commonly asked questions to guide user exploration.
  2. Autocomplete Suggestions: Offer real-time, context-aware suggestions as users type.
  3. Summaries: Generate concise AI-driven summaries for quick insights with references.
  4. Search Results: Display detailed results, including titles, descriptions, and links.

To demonstrate these features effectively, the guide uses:

  • React: A robust library for building user interfaces.
  • React Query: Simplifies API data fetching, caching, and state management.
  • Tailwind CSS: Ensures rapid, consistent styling for the UI.
  • Debouncing: Optimizes real-time interactions by limiting API calls during rapid input.

While these tools are used for clarity and convenience, the principles and techniques are adaptable to any tech stack.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have created an API User Interface in the Raffle Web app. This is required to retrieve the uid needed for the API calls in this guide.

  • To create an API User Interface, follow the instructions here.
  • To retrieve the uid, open the Install modal in the User Interface configuration page and follow the steps outlined here.

Without this setup, the API integrations will not function correctly.

Workflow

For each feature, you’ll learn how to:

  1. Make the API call to fetch relevant data.
  2. Integrate the data seamlessly into a React component.
  3. Apply best practices for user experience, including debouncing and error handling.
  4. Render the data effectively to create an intuitive interface.

All examples are aligned with the Raffle React API Example repository to help you implement the concepts in your project.

By the end of this guide, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to leverage Raffle’s API to create a fast, reliable, and interactive search solution in your React application.

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