FuzzyFinder is a simple auto suggestion / fuzzy find app and an excellent view into the world of auto suggestion.
In the journey to create a fuzzy finder I learned about auto suggestions using distance measurements. More can be found here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_string_matching
I found this video on fuzzy find to be quite helpful and interesting as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahn-iyQPgpQ&t=969s
While many other companies use phonetics in combination with distance measurements to create a more powerful and useful solution I decided to create a more simple solution using character matching and character position filtering. I mostly chose to do this as I only had a few days to present an mvp and in most practical uses I would use a package for such a complex algorithm.
To build: npm run build
To start the server: npm run start
To start in dev mode, with everything watched: npm run watch