added a search bar filter

components/SearchFilter/SearchFilter.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+import React, { ChangeEvent, useState, useEffect } from 'react';
+import { Project } from '../../util';
+import Searchbar from './Searchbar';
+
+interface SearchFilterProps {
+  projects: Project[];
+  setFilteredProjects: (projectList: Project[]) => void;
+}
+
+function lowercaseRemove(s: string) {
+  // takes a string, makes it all lowercase, and removes all - and _ characters, and
+  // also removes whitespace
+
+  let newString = s.toLowerCase();
+  newString = newString.replace(/-|_|\s/g, '');
+  return newString;
+}
+
+function SearchFilter({projects, setFilteredProjects}: SearchFilterProps): JSX.Element {
+
+  const [searchbarText, setSearchbarText] = useState('');
+
+  const handleSearchInput = (e: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
+    setSearchbarText(e.target.value);
+  };
+
+  const filterProjectsBySearchText = (project: Project) => {
+    // helper function for filtering the projects
+
+    // remove - and _ and white spaces from search, and make it lowercase to make it easier for the user to
+    // search things without typing the exact name
+    // e.g. if the user searches "devpathways" or "dev pathways" they should still be able to see "Dev-Pathways"
+    const search = lowercaseRemove(searchbarText);
+
+    const {
+      name,
+      description,
+      lang,
+      topics,
+    } = project;
+
+    // can search by name, description, or language
+    const lowercaseName = lowercaseRemove(name);
+    const lowercaseDescription = lowercaseRemove(description);
+    const lowercaseLang = lowercaseRemove(lang);
+
+    if (lowercaseName.includes(search) || lowercaseDescription.includes(search) || lowercaseLang.includes(search)) {
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    // can also search by topic
+    for (let i = 0; i < topics.length; i++) {
+      const lowercaseTopic = lowercaseRemove(topics[i]);
+
+      if (lowercaseTopic.includes(search)) {
+        return true;
+      }
+    }
+
+    return false;
+  };
+
+  // run the filter projects function every time the searchbar text changes
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const tempProjects = projects.filter(filterProjectsBySearchText);
+    setFilteredProjects(tempProjects);
+  }, [searchbarText]);
+
+  return (
+    <div>
+      <Searchbar
+        value={searchbarText}
+        onChange={(e: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => handleSearchInput(e)}
+      />
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+export default SearchFilter;

components/SearchFilter/Searchbar.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import React, { ChangeEvent } from 'react';
+
+interface SearchbarProps {
+  value: string;
+  onChange: (e: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => void;
+}
+
+function Searchbar({value, onChange}: SearchbarProps): JSX.Element {
+
+  return (
+    <div className="searchbar">
+      <input
+        placeholder="search"
+        type="search"
+        value={value}
+        onChange={onChange}
+      />
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+export default Searchbar;

pages/projects.tsx

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import { GetStaticProps } from 'next';
 import { NextSeo } from 'next-seo';
-import React from 'react';
+import React, { useState } from 'react';
 import Layout from '../components/Layout';
 import ProjectCard from '../components/ProjectCard';
+import SearchFilter from '../components/SearchFilter/SearchFilter';
 import { getProjects, Project, GitHubColors, getGithubColors } from '../util';
 
 
@@ -12,6 +13,11 @@ interface ProjectsProps {
 }
 
 function Projects({ projects, githubColors }: ProjectsProps): JSX.Element {
+
+  // projects is a master list of all the projects that we fetched, filteredProjects is the one that we render
+  // to the user
+  const [filteredProjects, setFilteredProjects] = useState(projects);
+
   return (
     <Layout>
       <div className="container">
@@ -35,14 +41,22 @@ function Projects({ projects, githubColors }: ProjectsProps): JSX.Element {
           a (work-in-progress) heads-up overview of the projects that power ACM at UCLA.
         </p>
         <hr />
+        <SearchFilter
+          projects={projects}
+          setFilteredProjects={setFilteredProjects}
+        />
+        <hr/>
         <div className="row same-height-grid">
-          {projects.map((project, i) => {
-            return (
-              <div className="col-4" key={project.name}>
-                <ProjectCard project={project} vertical preload={i < 3} githubColors={githubColors} />
-              </div>
-            );
-          })}
+          {filteredProjects.length > 0
+            ? filteredProjects.map((project, i) => {
+              return (
+                <div className="col-4" key={project.name}>
+                  <ProjectCard project={project} vertical preload={i < 3} githubColors={githubColors} />
+                </div>
+              );
+            })
+            : <h2>No results found</h2>
+          }
         </div>
       </div>
     </Layout>