JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/select2-master/select2.css">
<script src="http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/select2-master/select2.js"></script>
<input type='hidden' id='tags' style='width:300px' />

JavaScript

$("#tags").select2({
    createSearchChoice: function (term, data) {
        if ($(data).filter(function () {
            return this.text.localeCompare(term) === 0;
        }).length === 0) {
            return {
                id: term,
                text: term
            };
        }
    },
    multiple: false,
    data: [{
        id: 0,
        text: 'story'
    }, {
        id: 1,
        text: 'bug'
    }, {
        id: 2,
        text: 'task'
    }]
});