Simple Performant Fuzzy Search Library – Microfuzz

Microfuzz is a simple, lightweight, high-performance, framework-agnostic fuzzy search library written in JavaScript/TypeScript.

Features:

• Perform case-insensitive fuzzy searches
• Handle Cyrillic, Latin, and basic CJK scripts
• Search words in any order
• Get highlighted search matches
• Customize search strictness
• Sort results by match accuracy
• Search in-memory data structures
• Plug in and start searching in minutes
• Weighing in at around 2KB gzipped

How to use it:

1. Import the Microfuzz.

import createFuzzySearch from '@nozbe/microfuzz'

2. Apply the fuzzy search functionality to an array or an array of objects:

// array
const list = [/* ... */]
const fuzzySearch = createFuzzySearch(list)
// array of objects
const fuzzySearch = createFuzzySearch(list,{
      // search by `name` property
      key: 'name',
      // search by `description.text` property
      getText: (item) => [item.description.text]
      // search by multiple properties:
      getText: (item) => [item.name, item.description.text]
})
// get results
const results = fuzzySearch(queryText)