Hey there! I need to create a component for one of my apps that searches through my records by a couple of criteria corresponding to fields. Is there a better way to do it than just looping thru every record and checking? I have thousands of records. How does the Airtable search app do it for example?
Or perhaps someone has already built something open source that I can use?
Ideally I’d be able to use something built into Airtable like Interfaces, but they are not quite customizable enough yet. 
Having your code loop through every record and filter for the ones you want is one technique. Here are some others.
- Limit the records you are searching for by querying a filtered view instead of the table
- If you only want records linked to a particular parent record, get those record IDs from the parent record, and retrieve only those records
- If you will need to search the list of records multiple times for slightly different values, consider building a hash map. This technique has been described by Bill French multiple times in these forums and he has some excellent posts on the topic.
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