fuzzy matching for search results via fuse.js

[karaliunas]

I am trying to implement a custom plugin to integrate fuse.js lib to enable approximate string matching. It would be a useful plugin for some e-commerce cases when setting up a dedicated backend (ElasticSearch or Algolia) would simply be too much just to handle search.

I can get a query string and bind to load hook to get fuzzy matching results data from fuse.js in the console. It has a score property for each match so I think it would be possible to use it for sorting.

self.on('type', (str: string) => { querystring = str; }),

self.on('load', (items: []) => { if (querystring.length === 0) { return; } const fuse = new Fuse(items, options); const result = fuse.search(querystring); console.log(result); });

Now I am stuck because I don't know how to pass those results to refreshOptions method (it is there where the logic of finding results is implemented). What I think we need is an additional hook to augment currently internal search(query:string) method. Maybe creating a hook in search method something like this:
if (trigger) self.trigger('search', queryString); would be enough? I would be willing to create a PR for that. Thanks!

[oyejorge]

Maybe something like this:

class FuzzyTom extends TomSelect{

   // override search method
   search(query){
     let results = fuse.search(querystring);
     //...
     return results;
  }
}

[karaliunas]

thanks for a great solution @oyejorge! Will try and let you know how it goes

[leeoniya]

or not Fuse

https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy#performance