Autocomplete dropdowns in the navbar should load faster

Overview

Autocomplete dropdowns in the Navbar can be slow.

Recorded as real-time

To enhance performance and user experience. We need to split our header-search autocomplete API so that each section has its single responsibility API end-point.

Multiple single responsibility end-points will allow us to query them all at once but render the response data as fast as the fastest response arrives.

Insight

Rendering the whole autocomplete dropdown at once using a preloader circle.

Supporting evidence

The current implementation of the autocomplete takes a few extra milliseconds to wait for all responses to arrive in the backend and compile the response into a single JSON.

Action

Split autocomplete API into single responsibility APIs.

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