bvaughn/js-search

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2217 stars · 110 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

JS Search is an efficient, dependency-free client-side search library for JavaScript and JSON objects. It supports tokenization, stemming, stop words, prefix/substring matching, and TF-IDF ranking, all running in the browser.

Use cases

• search a local list of records in the browser without a server
• add full-text search to a static site or client-side app
• filter JSON data by title, author, or tags with ranked results
• build an instant-search box over a few thousand documents
• index nested object fields for searching
• replace a heavyweight search backend for small datasets

When to choose

• your dataset is small enough to load fully client-side
• you want zero server round-trips and no third-party dependencies
• you need configurable tokenization, stemming, and TF-IDF ranking
• you need ES5 compatibility

When to avoid

• you need to search very large datasets that won't fit in memory
• you need server-side or distributed search with scaling
• you need fuzzy typo-tolerant search out of the box
• you need multilingual language support beyond basic tokenization

Facets

library · maturity stable

search-engine web-development frontend browser client-side-search indexing tf-idf tokenization stemming stop-words search nodejs

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