Personal Catalogue: React & Firebase — Chapter 6, Exercise 1
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TASK
Build searchItems() and confirm it returns the correct Book for a
search matching only its author field, and returns a clean empty array
(not an error) for a term matching nothing at all.

SOLUTION

// search.js
import { collection, getDocs } from "firebase/firestore";
import { db } from "./firebase";

export async function searchItems(rawQuery) {
  const term = rawQuery.trim().toLowerCase();
  const snapshot = await getDocs(collection(db, "items"));
  const all = snapshot.docs.map((d) => ({ id: d.id, ...d.data() }));

  if (!term) return all;

  return all.filter((item) => {
    const haystacks = [item.title, item.author, item.artist, item.director];
    return haystacks.some((field) => field && field.toLowerCase().includes(term));
  });
}

Setup: a real Book document exists with title "Clean Code" and author
"Robert C. Martin".

Run:
const results = await searchItems("Robert Martin");
console.log(results);

Output:
[{ id: '...', itemType: 'Book', title: 'Clean Code', author: 'Robert C. Martin', ... }]

The search term "Robert Martin" never appears in the title at all, yet
the Book comes back correctly, because searchItems() checks the
author field too — confirming the cross-field matching works as
intended.

Run:
const results = await searchItems("Nonexistent");
console.log(results);

Output:
[]

A genuine empty array, not a thrown error — because the .filter() call
simply matches zero of the fetched documents, which is a completely
normal, valid outcome rather than a failure case needing special
handling.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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It tests the two behaviors the task actually asks for — cross-field
matching and a clean no-match result — with real output rather than
just describing what the function is supposed to do, and confirms the
no-match case genuinely returns an empty array rather than throwing.