aceakash/string-similarity
Finds degree of similarity between two strings, based on Dice's Coefficient, which is mostly better than Levenshtein distance. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4301
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1220
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2532 stars · 133 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A JavaScript library that computes the degree of similarity between two strings using Dice's Coefficient, offering compareTwoStrings and findBestMatch APIs. It works in Node.js and browsers but is now deprecated and unmaintained.
Use cases
- compare two strings for similarity in javascript
- find best matching string from a list
- fuzzy match user input against known values
- score similarity between titles or names
- deduplicate near-identical strings
When to choose
- you need a tiny dependency-free Dice coefficient comparison in Node or the browser
- you want to pick the closest match from a list of candidate strings
When to avoid
- starting a new project, since the package is deprecated and unmaintained
- you need Levenshtein distance or more advanced fuzzy matching algorithms
- you need guaranteed bug fixes or security updates
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
nlp search-engine developer-tools browser string-similarity dice-coefficient fuzzy-matching deprecated npm natural-language-processing nodejs javascript
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/aceakash/string-similarity · fetched 2026-08-28 · fdb7159c274e
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/string-similarity · fetched 2026-08-29 · 83f9268da715
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| aceakash/string-similarity | main | 10 |
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