Fast, Tiny, & Good fuzzy search for JavaScript.
Fast: <1ms to search 13,000 files.
Tiny: 1 file, 0 dependencies, 5kb.
Good: clean api + sorts results well.
https://rawgit.com/farzher/fuzzysort/master/test/test.html
Installation Node / Bun / Deno
npm i fuzzysort
import fuzzysort from 'fuzzysort'
const fuzzysort = require('fuzzysort')
Installation Browser
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/fuzzysort@3.1.0/fuzzysort.min.js"></script>
Usage
fuzzysort.go(search, targets, options=null)
const mystuff = [{file: 'Apple.cpp'}, {file: 'Banana.cpp'}]
const results = fuzzysort.go('a', mystuff, {key: 'file'})
// [{score: 0.81, obj: {file: 'Apple.cpp'}}, {score: 0.59, obj: {file: 'Banana.cpp'}}]
Options
fuzzysort.go(search, targets, {
threshold: 0, // Don't return matches worse than this
limit: 0, // Don't return more results than this
all: false, // If true, returns all results for an empty search
key: null, // For when targets are objects (see its example usage)
keys: null, // For when targets are objects (see its example usage)
scoreFn: null, // For use with `keys` (see its example usage)
})
What's a result
const result = fuzzysort.single('query', 'some string that contains my query.')
result.score // .80 (1 is a perfect match. 0.5 is a good match. 0 is no match.)
result.target // 'some string that contains my query.'
result.obj // reference to your original obj when using options.key
result.indexes // [29, 30, 31, 32, 33]
result.highlight('<b>', '</b>')
// 'some string that contains my <b>query</b>.'
result.highlight((m, i) => <react key={i}>{m}</react>)
// ['some string that contains my ', <react key=0>query</react>, '.']
Advanced Usage
Search a list of objects, by multiple complex keys, with custom weights.
let objects = [{
title: 'Liechi Berry',
meta: {desc: 'Raises Attack when HP is low.'},
tags: ['berries', 'items'],
bookmarked: true,
}, {
title: 'Petaya Berry',
meta: {desc: 'Raises Special Attack when HP is low.'},
}]
let results = fuzzysort.go('attack berry', objects, {
keys: ['title', 'meta.desc', obj => obj.tags?.join()],
scoreFn: r => r.score * r.obj.bookmarked ? 2 : 1, // if the item is bookmarked, boost its score
})
var keysResult = results[0]
// When using multiple `keys`, results are different. They're indexable to get each normal result
keysResult[0].highlight() // 'Liechi <b>Berry</b>'
keysResult[1].highlight() // 'Raises <b>Attack</b> when HP is low.'
keysResult.score // .84
keysResult.obj.title // 'Liechi Berry'
How To Go Fast · Performance Tips
let targets = [{file: 'Monitor.cpp'}, {file: 'MeshRenderer.cpp'}]
// filter out targets that you don't need to search! especially long ones!
targets = targets.filter(t => t.file.length < 1000)
// if your targets don't change often, provide prepared targets instead of raw strings!
targets.forEach(t => t.filePrepared = fuzzysort.prepare(t.file))
// don't use options.key if you don't need a reference to your original obj
targets = targets.map(t => t.filePrepared)
const options = {
limit: 100, // don't return more results than you need!
threshold: .5, // don't return bad results
}
fuzzysort.go('gotta', targets, options)
fuzzysort.go('go', targets, options)
fuzzysort.go('fast', targets, options)
Gotcha
result.score
is implemented as a getter/setter and stored different internally
r.score = .3; // r.score == 0.30000000000000004
Star History
Changelog
v3.1.0
- Automatically handle diacritics / accents / ligatures
v3.0.0
- Added new behavior when using
keys
and your search contains spaces! - Added
options.key
can now be a function{key: obj => obj.tags.join()}
- Removed
fuzzysort.indexes
& Addedresult.indexes
(as a getter/setter for GC perf) - Removed
fuzzysort.highlight()
& Addedresult.highlight()
- Changed scoring: score is now a number from 0 to 1 instead of from -Infinity to 0
- Changed scoring: substring matches are even more relevant
- Changed scoring:
straw berry
now matches great againststrawberry
- Changed scoring: tweaked the scoring quite a bit
result.score
is behind a getter/setter for performance reasons- Fixed minor issues
v2.0.0
- Added new behavior when your search contains spaces!
- Added fuzzysort.min.js
- Now depends on ES6 features
- Removed
result.indexes
& Addedfuzzysort.indexes
(improved GC performance) - Completely Removed
options.allowTypo
- Completely Removed
fuzzysort.goAsync
- Completely Removed
fuzzysort.new
- Rewrote the demo
v1.9.0
- Even faster
- Added
options.all
- Deprecated/Removed
options.allowTypo
- Deprecated/Removed
fuzzysort.goAsync
- Changed scoring: boosted substring matches
- Changed scoring: targets with too many beginning indexes lose points for being a bad target
- Changed scoring: penality for not starting near the beginning
- Changed scoring: penality for more groups
- Fixed "Exponential backtracking hangs browser"
v1.2.0
- Added
fuzzysort.highlight(result, callback)
v1.1.0
- Added
allowTypo
as an option
v1.0.0
- Inverted scores; they're now negative instead of positive, so that higher scores are better
- Added ability to search objects by
key
/keys
with custom weights - Removed the option to automatically highlight and exposed
fuzzysort.highlight
- Removed all options from
fuzzysort
and moved them intofuzzysort.go
optional params
v0.x.x
- init