Micromys

A tiny tool that helps to find strings in pre-defined dictionary by user input. It uses algorithm similar to one that IDEs use when user looks for a file by some parts of the file's name. For example, it finds string aTinyTool when input is att.

Installation

yarn add micromys or npm install micromys

Usage

Basic

import { createSearchFunction } from 'micromys';
 
const search = createSearchFunction(['myFavoriteFile', 'i_love_underscores']);
 
const searchResults = search('ilo');
console.log(searchResults); 
// [{ 
//   sentence: 'i_love_underscores', 
//   highlights: [
//     { start: 0, end: 0 },
//     { start: 2, end: 3 },
//   ], 
// }]

Advanced

You can think of this module as of a constructor. Feel free to import any parts of micromys and to build something new from them. You can start from createSearchFunction.js - the place that wires all the sub parts. For example, you can provide your own custom isLetter function in order to add support for languages with non-latin alphabets.

Highlighting

In order to simplify highlighting implementation there is highlightSentence function.

import { highlightSentence } from 'micromys/src/highlightSentence';
 
const highlighted = highlightSentence({ 
  sentence: 'some words',
  highlights: [{ start: 0, end: 3 }],
  highlight: (text) => `<b>${text}</b>`,
}).join('');
 
console.log(highlighted); // '<b>some</b> words'

CommonJS support

If you need to require instead of import, use require('micromys/cjs');

Limitations

By default micromys supports only latin alphabet. If you need more, see Advanced section above.