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Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2019-02-03 · latest 2026-01-14

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  1. i use flex search https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
    comment by pdyc · 2026-01-14 · in We rolled our own documentation site
  2. Fuse is terrible performance-wise. There are many better options https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch?tab=readme-ov-file... I tried Fuse, lunr and MiniSearch, and I stayed with MiniSearch. Great flexibility and very good performance…
    comment by efilife · 2024-12-30 · in Libsearch: Simple index-free full-text search for JavaScript
  3. …like flexsearch [1]. That could be even less work than running a minimal rails backend. -- 1: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
    comment by emmanueloga_ · 2024-06-22 · in Sloth search for Ruby Weekly – a 100 minute hack turned 20h open sauce project
  4. Any comparison data with https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch ? Also what player are using to play/pause gif in your readme?
    comment by newusertoday · 2024-02-16 · in Show HN: Frontend Fuzzy Search
  5. …https://github.com/LyraSearch/lyra https://lyrasearch.io/ flexsearch https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch#performance-benchm... https://pagefind.app/docs/ Lucene https://github.com/apache/lucene https://lucene.apache.org/
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-10-24 · in Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
  6. Current version of FlexSearch (0.7.2) is not typo tolerant, see https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch/issues/118
    comment by alessmar · 2022-08-01 · in Lyra: Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine in TypeScript
  7. I wonder how this compares to Flexsearch or the other benchmarked libraries here: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch#performance-benchm...
    comment by jitl · 2022-08-01 · in Lyra: Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine in TypeScript
  8. …extra to host or pay for as it's all static. Edit: This lists similar libraries plus benchmarks: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
    comment by seanwilson · 2022-02-01 · in Ask HN: What do you use to power search for a static site?
  9. …search of their notes? Code Notes seems to use FlexSearch.js [1]. [1]: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch [2]: https://prosemirror.net/
    comment by benrbray · 2020-06-13 · in Show HN: Code Notes – A Gatsby theme for publishing code-related notes
  10. …compare with flexsearch? It claims to be the fastest, smallest, prettiest search library in town. https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
    comment by Luff · 2020-06-10 · in A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019)