☒ The stimulus controller doesn't actually get "installed".  In the javascript/controllers/index.js you should import the library and then register it with the Stimulus library.

import { Autocomplete } from 'stimulus-autocomplete'

application.register('autocomplete', Autocomplete) 

Awesome  ☒ ! and thank you for posting your solution here for others to find! 

I like the idea. Datatables is pretty powerful and crazy complicated when doing something beyond a simple table.

 ☒ Can you go into a few more details and a use case? I'm understanding this as you want the Rails application (for example, that is being browsed on an end user's iOS Safari browser), to trigger, send and read SMS communications from their iMessage app.

On the other hand, are you more talking about having a backend service where a user can SMS a static phone number and carry a conversation? Something like a state managed SMS send/response.

Cool. I'll probably still cover it without the jquery portion and also bring in async loading of the data. 😀