brainstorm VS uFuzzy

Have you considered building the search piece in wasm for performance? A few years back I was looking for a library like this and couldn’t find one that seemed fast enough for what I wanted. I ended up building one in rust and it’s easily 2x as fast as the js code I started with.

It’s not nearly as good a fuzzy search as this is as I just kinda tinkered with it till it felt ok for the purpose but it could be way better.

Source: https://github.com/trescenzi/brainstorm

Thank you. We need more libs like that. I just researched the field yesterday and https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy looked pretty good. But there is a gap in the market of such libs. Just few allow to send the whole html document, serialize and deserialize index to be used in browser, highlighting the matches is desired feature.

Most importantly very few fuzzy search libs can get a simple substring match as a priority, which is understandable but not helpful. Imagine searching for “xample” and not having “example” among the results.

interesting, i made something much more stupid but brutally effective: https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy

i guess if you wanted to do sorting by contact frequency you can just keep the original haystack sorted by frequency, and get Richard match first.

allow me to self-promote https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy

Keep the tech simple and minimal. Just the basics: javascript, css, HTML. No react or other frameworks. No tech for tech's sake. I did use one very excellent search library uFuzzy.

maybe habit, maybe less devDependencies, maybe wanting to hand-author a readable/commented form of https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy/blob/main/dist/uFuzzy.d.ts?