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Top 9 JavaScript fuzzy-search Projects
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The feature was powered by flexsearch — a zero-deps full-text search library; ooh boy I'm a big fan of lightweight and no/low dependencies. I dug into how Nextra uses this to index content at build-time for search; it was interesting.
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list.js
The perfect library for adding search, sort, filters and flexibility to tables, lists and various HTML elements. Built to be invisible and work on existing HTML.
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Project mention: Libsearch: Simple index-free full-text search for JavaScript | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-28
this is 115 lines of TS, which is pretty lightweight, but some other impt table stakes might be missing that you should be aware of.
see all the JS alternatives with their sizes and feature sets and perf: https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy (scroll to bottom)
i went down this path a few yrs ago and ended up picking ufuzzy: https://swyxkit.netlify.app/ufuzzy-search
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firefox-command-palette
Control Firefox with Sublime/helm-M-x style fuzzy complete. Use it from the omnibar with the ; search prefix, or trigger a pop-up with Ctrl+Space.
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docjump
A fuzzy-finder for methods, fields etc., in documentation reference pages for programming languages and software development frameworks.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
JavaScript fuzzy-search discussion
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List.js - Tiny, invisible and simple, yet powerful and incredibly fast vanilla JavaScript that adds search, sort, filters and flexibility to plain HTML lists, tables, or anything
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List.js: vanilla JavaScript list filter/sort with fuzzy match
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Any emacs-ng specific packages?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source fuzzy-search projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | flexsearch | 13,000 |
| 2 | list.js | 11,220 |
| 3 | uFuzzy | 2,835 |
| 4 | fuzzball.js | 608 |
| 5 | fzy.js | 156 |
| 6 | inquirer-fuzzy-path | 88 |
| 7 | firefox-command-palette | 35 |
| 8 | ng-fuzzy-search | 11 |
| 9 | docjump | 3 |
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