DRUPAL MODULE: ACTIVE FACET PILLS

This is a module that I did not know. I found it in a project already done.

The main problem is that this module was popping one of the pages of the Search API Views of this client.

Researching I found out that the Active Facet Pills module what it does is get all the active facets and check if they have results for the current page.

Seems like that's the right thing to do, right? Well NO...

It is collecting all the active facet filters, not the active ones for the current page. That means that if we have several views with facets, then this module makes a call to each of the views.

As you can imagine this is a performance problem. It doesn't make sense that if I'm on page A, it runs the search for pages B and C just to know if the facets pills are to be shown.

Honestly, it's not a module I recommend.

It's been in Beta for 3 years and its last development version was 2 years ago.

And it has no support for Drupal 9.

Besides, they say that it is better to use the "Facets Summary" submodule.

In this project that I tell you about, in the end, they have chosen to use the "Facets Summary" submodule. Basically, because it works better, has better support and is also applicable for Drupal 9 (that website has to be migrated to Drupal 9 before the end of the year).