Comment by Sebastian on "How to implement search in React?"

Hmm if it should work like in the windows explorer and it should work without a input field (which captures the key stroke) then you would have to intercept the key stroke of the entire browser window and do things like finding the elements in the list and highlight them. Is this what you want to accomplish? Just asking because Ctrl + F does may 80% of what you want.

Anyway I would tackle it like this:

grabbing the input to get the key (from wherever)
put it into the local state
on render read the state so you can add some highlighting to the effected elements
on like componentdidupdate you can search in your list and find the first matching element, get the dom node (with react-DOM api and call something like ensureVisible() on the node to may scroll to the element when its currently not visible.

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