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flexsearch
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nextapps-de / flexsearch

flexsearch

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

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

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-02-03 16:08:26 UTC to 2026-01-14 06:16:05 UTC.

012342019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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efilife·Dec 30, 2024
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 even when I am indexing almost a million documents + many useful features. Also, I would also recommend giving FlexSearch a try, it has some fancy algorithm that supposedly makes searches extra fast https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch?tab=readme-ov-file...
In Libsearch: Simple index-free full-text search for JavaScript
hardwaresofton·Oct 24, 2022
Oh! Damn it I forgot about manticore -- I had seen it before but forgot to include it. Eventually all of these projects will be highlighted on Awesome F/OSS (https://awsmfoss.com), but for now I'm just going to dump my bookmarks here for other people, since I'm leaving awesome projects out: Search Engines AWS OpenSearch https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards https://github.com/opensearch-project/perftop https://github.com/go-ego/riot https://groonga.org/ https://github.com/groonga/groonga https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch https://github.com/mosuka/bayard https://github.com/nezaboodka/nevod https://github.com/searx/searx https://github.com/stryku/okon https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi https://github.com/typesense/typesense https://github.com/valeriansaliou/s
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onic Algolia https://github.com/marconi1992/algolite https://quickwit.io/ https://github.com/quickwit-inc/quickwit https://docs.meilisearch.com/ https://github.com/prabhatsharma/zinc phalanx https://github.com/blugelabs/bluge https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx https://github.com/mosuka/blast ManticoreSearch https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch https://github.com/manticoresoftware/docker https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el... https://manticoresearch.com/ https://manual.manticoresearch.com/Introduction https://forum.manticoresearch.com/t/manticore-search-cheatsh... https://forum.manticoresearch.com/ Whoosh https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://pypi.org/project/Whoosh/ lyra https://github.com/nearform/lyra https://nearform.github.io/lyra/ 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/ ZincSearch https://zincsearch.com/ Solr https://solr.apache.org/ https://solr.apache.org/operator/ https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/getting-started/so... https://github.com/apache/solr https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/deployment-guide/s... Konnu https://gitlab.com/shadowislord/konnu Quickwit QuickWit + Clickhouse https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/guides/developer/full-text-se... https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/functions/strin... There is no way I can get to running all of these (this project was supposed to be quick!!), but I will run the ones I noted earlier, and probably manticore too since it was high on my list since it's quite polished looking.
In Sonic: Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
seanwilson·Feb 1, 2022
How big is the website? This was a while ago so maybe there's better libraries for it but I've integrated https://lunrjs.com/ before for searching a few 100 FAQs with lengthy answers. You create a static search index file of your articles at build time that's served to the client (it was ~20KB compressed) to search with using JavaScript. The indexing file will grow with the number of documents you have but not sure at what stage this approach becomes impractical (does anyone have any benchmarks?). Worth looking into because you can create a completely custom search UI that updates instantly plus there's nothing extra to host or pay for as it's all static. Edit: This lists similar libraries plus benchmarks: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
In Ask HN: What do you use to power search for a static site?
graderjs·Nov 1, 2021Submission

Ask HN: Full text search engine in JavaScript for English and Chinese?

I'm interested in providing the full text search capability for product 22120 which has a web archive capability. I've investigated a few such as those based on solr but my concern is that they do not handle multiple human languages with minimal configuration. Ideally something that has the stemming and tokenization for multiple languages including East Asian languages such as Chinese Japanese Korean and ideally South Asian languages like Hindi and Urdu as well. Unfortunately a great many search engines out there seem to have a stemming and tokenization available for romance languages such as Latin derived or Germanic languages. People from everywhere like to archive web content that they browse and the content is in multiple human languages so to provide a good full text search I need something that can handle multiple human languages. I
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considered maybe writing something myself such as a simple Trie, but I think the rabbit hole of creating a good full text search is a very very long and convoluted one so preferable to plug in something that already exists. I really love what flexsearch is doing especially how they are using signals from context I think that's the future. But I'm concerned how basic their support for stemming and tokenization is for example: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch/issues/207
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benrbray·Jun 13, 2020
I've enjoyed all the recent HN posts about notetaking software! (Roam, org-roam, Obsidian, Zettlr, Code Notes...) It seems the main point of Code Notes is to serve a static site, but I'd love to see the author turn it into an editor by hooking up a ProseMirror [2] instance :) Out of curiosity, what solutions do others use for tags/categorization/full-text search of their notes? Code Notes seems to use FlexSearch.js [1]. [1]: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch [2]: https://prosemirror.net/
In Show HN: Code Notes – A Gatsby theme for publishing code-related notes

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