remove search blocker, fix debounce params

src/components/emoji_input/suggestor.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { debounce } from 'lodash'
+import debounce from 'lodash/debounce'
 /**
  * suggest - generates a suggestor function to be used by emoji-input
  * data: object providing source information for specific types of suggestions:
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { debounce } from 'lodash'
 
 const debounceUserSearch = debounce((data, input) => {
   data.updateUsersList(input)
-}, 500, { leading: true, trailing: false })
+}, 500)
 
 export default data => input => {
   const firstChar = input[0]
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ export const suggestUsers = data => input => {
     replacement: '@' + screen_name + ' '
   }))
 
-  // BE search users if there are no matches
+  // BE search users to get more comprehensive results
-  if (newUsers.length === 0 && data.updateUsersList) {
+  if (data.updateUsersList) {
     debounceUserSearch(data, noPrefix)
   }
   return newUsers

src/modules/users.js

@@ -225,6 +225,12 @@ export const mutations = {
   signUpFailure (state, errors) {
     state.signUpPending = false
     state.signUpErrors = errors
+  },
+  addRecentQuery (state, query) {
+    state.recentQueries = state.recentQueries.concat(query)
+    if (state.recentQueries.length > 10) {
+      state.recentQueries = state.recentQueries.slice(1)
+    }
   }
 }
 
@@ -251,7 +257,8 @@ export const defaultState = {
   usersObject: {},
   signUpPending: false,
   signUpErrors: [],
-  relationships: {}
+  relationships: {},
+  recentQueries: []
 }
 
 const users = {
@@ -428,10 +435,15 @@ const users = {
         store.commit('setUserForNotification', notification)
       })
     },
-    searchUsers (store, { query }) {
+    searchUsers ({ rootState, commit }, { query }) {
-      return store.rootState.api.backendInteractor.searchUsers({ query })
+      // Don't fetch if this query was already done recently
+      if (rootState.users.recentQueries.includes(query)) {
+        return []
+      }
+      return rootState.api.backendInteractor.searchUsers({ query })
         .then((users) => {
-          store.commit('addNewUsers', users)
+          commit('addRecentQuery', query)
+          commit('addNewUsers', users)
           return users
         })
     },