How to zero "initialState" and not to show any initial results on example home page?

[FuadEfendi]

Hello,

I am working on few examples, including plain "instantsearch", and "autocomplete/examples/instantsearch".

Where can I configure "do not send initial query"? It seems that query such as query='' (empty query) will be initially sent and homepage will show search results (whole database!)

I want it to be initially empty, until user inputs non-empty query.

I found only this, https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/widgets/instantsearch/js/#widget-param-initialuistate

• but it is unclear; if query: '' then search will return all documents:

const search = instantsearch({
  // ...
  initialUiState: {
    indexName: {
      query: 'phone',
      page: 5,
    },
  },
});

Thanks,

[FuadEfendi]

I think I found an answer,

var search = instantsearch({
  searchFunction(helper) {
    if (helper.state.query === '') {
      return;
    }
    helper.search();
  }

https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/widgets/instantsearch/js/#widget-param-searchfunction