Add autocomplete to search for Authors #1260

[MSTEWARDSON]

Issue This PR Addresses

Fixes #1260

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• Bugfix: Change which fixes an issue
• New Feature: Change which adds functionality
• Documentation Update: Change which improves documentation
• UI: Change which improves UI

Description

I didn't realize my code was out of date, so its now updated. I reworked the Autocomplete component into a datalist since there was some conflicts with getting it too work.

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• Quality: This PR builds and passes our npm test and works locally
• Tests: This PR includes thorough tests or an explanation of why it does not
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[MSTEWARDSON]

@humphd Ok, so far I have the autocomplete functionality working with the search-bar, but with only test data atm. I'm unsure on how to make a call to backend to acquire the sites author data for this case, does anyone have any suggestions for this?

[c3ho]

check /src/backend/web/routes/ for a list of the routes we have, you should be able to publicly access most of them except for the ones that have protectAdmin()

[MSTEWARDSON]

@c3ho Alright thank you Ill look into that.