brianreavis/sifter.js

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1099 stars · 120 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Sifter.js is a JavaScript library for textually searching arrays and hashes of objects by one or more properties, with scoring, filtering, and sorting designed for autocomplete. It works both client- and server-side via UMD and supports diacritics, nested properties, and multi-field sorting.

Use cases

• build autocomplete for a list of objects
• fuzzy search arrays of objects by property in javascript
• search objects with diacritic-insensitive matching
• sort search results by multiple fields
• filter a dataset client-side as the user types
• search nested object properties with dot notation

When to choose

• you need lightweight, dependency-free fuzzy search/autocomplete over in-memory object collections
• you need diacritic-tolerant matching and smart match scoring
• you need the same search code in browser and node.js

When to avoid

• you need full-text search over large datasets or an index - use a real search engine like lunr, flexsearch, or Elasticsearch
• you need active development or guaranteed maintenance - the project has no license file and infrequent releases
• you need server-side search over databases rather than in-memory arrays

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

search-engine parser frontend web-development developer-tools browser autocomplete fuzzy-search text-search diacritics client-side umd search nodejs javascript

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