minisearch vs nlp

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minisearch		nlp
	Project
10	Mentions	2
4,131	Stars	63
-	Growth	-
7.6	Activity	4.8
17 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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minisearch

Posts with mentions or reviews of minisearch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

Character and Subsector generators for Classic Traveller, with TAS Forms!
3 projects | /r/traveller | 7 Dec 2023

I wrote an online catalog a while back (and I need to get back on adding graphics and products at some point). It’s written using Eleventy and the minisearch library. The source and data are available on Github if you want to see how I did things. I’m not a professional web designer either, but it was a fun project.
What is your go to client-side fuzzy searching library?
5 projects | /r/nextjs | 10 Feb 2023
Meilisearch v1.0 – the open-source Rust alternative to Algolia and Elasticsearch
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2023

You could have a look at https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/
What do you use for site search? Custom built solution? Meilisearch? Algolia?
2 projects | /r/PHP | 3 Feb 2023

If you're dealing with thousands of records or less, searching titles and summaries rather than long bodies of text, I recommend looking into client-side solutions. Nothing beats the responsiveness of search-as-you-type entirely on the client side. It can be fairly sophisticated fulltext search. For example, I've built had great success with MiniSearch.
MiniSearch – fuzzy match search in TypeScript
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2022
Minisearch: Tiny, powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser, Node
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2022
Lyra: Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine in TypeScript
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2022

I quite enjoy minisearch[1] which is also 0 dependencies, actively maintained, and I expect would work well in a worker environment. I dropped it into a service worker and plugged it with a simple point in polygon script to enable geosearch for a recent project[2] and it played v. nicely.
[1] https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch
I highly recommend the Omnisearch plugin.
4 projects | /r/ObsidianMD | 25 May 2022

No magic here, the underlying engine is Minisearch, which uses the BM25 algorithm (the de facto standard among search libraries). Omnisearch adds a magic sauce during indexing by converting notes into custom objects, with the following fields: - body (the plain markdown text) - filename & yaml aliases - level 1 headers - level 2 headers - level 3 headers
For lovers of instant search and Ctrl+K menus, we made an open-source tool to add that to your website in 2 steps: 1. Enter your URL 2. Add code snippet to <head>. Links and code in comments!
1 project | /r/web_design | 2 Apr 2022

It's actually really simple! Minisearch did most of the heavy lifting so all we needed to do was the crawling, storing and UI etc. I'd check that out if you're interested in the search part!
I made a tool to add instant search to your site in 2 steps: 1. Enter your URL 2. Add code snippet to <head>. Links in comments!
4 projects | /r/webdev | 2 Apr 2022

We use MiniSearch for searching, while fast-fuzzy is used for highlighting of detected search terms.

nlp

Posts with mentions or reviews of nlp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-25.

Error: "NLP plugin must be installed and enabled" - Graph Analysis plugin
1 project | /r/ObsidianMD | 30 Jun 2023

I got it to work by installing this NLP plugin (link).
I highly recommend the Omnisearch plugin.
4 projects | /r/ObsidianMD | 25 May 2022

If you're interested in this feature, there's a graph analysis plugin that does this with a bunch of different algorithms: https://github.com/SkepticMystic/graph-analysis. And at least one of these algos uses an NLP plugin https://github.com/SkepticMystic/nlp

What are some alternatives?

When comparing minisearch and nlp you can also consider the following projects:

flexsearch - Next-Generation full text search library for Browser and Node.js

obsidian-omnisearch - A search engine that "just works" for Obsidian. Supports OCR and PDF indexing.

lunr.js - A bit like Solr, but much smaller and not as bright

orama - 🌌 Fast, dependency-free, full-text and vector search engine with typo tolerance, filters, facets, stemming, and more. Works with any JavaScript runtime, browser, server, service!

itemsjs - Extremely fast faceted search engine in JavaScript - lightweight, flexible, and simple to use

regex-benchmark - It's just a simple regex benchmark of different programming languages.

Lyra - A simple to use, composable, command line parser for C++ 11 and beyond

catche-search-widget - A low-code way to add instant search to your website

re.places - An in-cache, searchable database of 41,000 global cities. It’s designed as a light-weight polyfill for ‘cities’ in Algolia's places API, for when it sunsets in May 2022

fast-fuzzy - Fast fuzzy search utility

Fuse - Lightweight fuzzy-search, in JavaScript