I suspect you want to follow an existing example.
The place to look, I suspect, is discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/d-editor.js.es6 at f62b8990acb9ce4af8bfc67fc80dc0847177e458 · discourse/discourse · GitHub
Specifically:
didInsertElement() {
this._super(...arguments);
const $editorInput = $(this.element.querySelector(".d-editor-input"));
this._applyEmojiAutocomplete($editorInput);
this._applyCategoryHashtagAutocomplete($editorInput);
And maybe take a look at:
_applyCategoryHashtagAutocomplete() {
const siteSettings = this.siteSettings;
$(this.element.querySelector(".d-editor-input")).autocomplete({
template: findRawTemplate("category-tag-autocomplete"),
key: "#",
afterComplete: () => this._focusTextArea(),
transformComplete: obj => {
return obj.text;
},
dataSource: term => {
if (term.match(/\s/)) {
return null;
}
return searchCategoryTag(term, siteSettings);
},
triggerRule: (textarea, opts) => {
return categoryHashtagTriggerRule(textarea, opts);
}
});
},
NB I’ve not exploited this myself, but that’s my guess.