Life & fun · February 14, 2024
Frontend Fuzzy Search
I have spent several years working on search engines in the backend and have now utilized that experience to develop a fuzzy search library for the frontend. It's fast, accurate and can be used for all languages. It should be easy to integrate into your Javascript / Typescript projects. If you test it and find any edge cases that did not work for you please let me know. The implementation is based on 3-grams by the book, augmented with a novel trick of sorting the characters within the 3-grams for enhanced accuracy. For a detailed explanation you may refer to my related blog post at…
Frontend Fuzzy Search launched on February 14, 2024 with 120 votes, #446 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Frontend Fuzzy Search is a JavaScript and TypeScript library for implementing fuzzy search functionality in web applications. It works across all languages and uses a 3-gram based algorithm with character sorting for improved accuracy. The library is designed for easy integration into frontend projects and emphasizes fast, reliable search performance. It was built by a developer with extensive backend search engine experience.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
A fast, accurate and multilingual fuzzy search library for the frontend. - m31coding/fuzzy-search
In the maker’s words, at launch
I have spent several years working on search engines in the backend and have now utilized that experience to develop a fuzzy search library for the frontend. It's fast, accurate and can be used for all languages. It should be easy to integrate into your Javascript / Typescript projects. If you test it and find…
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