fergiemcdowall/search-index

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1421 stars · 148 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A persistent, network-resilient full-text search library for JavaScript that runs in both the browser and Node.js. It lets developers build and query an inverted search index locally without needing a server-side search engine.

Use cases

• add full-text search to a static site or web app
• build offline-first search that works without a network
• index and query JSON documents in Node.js
• embed a search engine in the browser without a backend
• create a persistent local search index for an app
• search documents client-side with no server dependency

When to choose

• you need client-side or offline search without running a search server
• you want a lightweight embedded full-text index in JavaScript
• your dataset is small-to-medium and persistence in the browser or Node is important

When to avoid

• you need distributed, multi-node search at large scale (use Elasticsearch or similar)
• you need advanced relevance tuning, faceting, or clustering out of the box
• your stack is not JavaScript

Facets

library · maturity stable

search-engine nlp serialization web-development frontend browser cross-platform full-text-search offline-first persistent-index javascript search natural-language-processing nodejs

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