Holmes.js

Fast and easy searching inside a page

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Fast and easy searching inside a page

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Holmes.js is a way to filter/search for elements on your page

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Algolia

Maker

I made this because I found this a piece of code I wrote quite often. This is the first time I made a larger public project, so let me know whatever you think. I've found it easy to replace the search bars I'd already written to this version

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10yr ago

@haroenv I love the name! Will try it next time we need one!

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10yr ago

Maker

@ariel_janover @haroenv Glad you like it :) I first suggested "Sherlock / Sherlock.js" but it was already in use. So @Haroenv naturally came in with the idea of Holmes.js, which is awesome :) I would have called it "Watson.js" otherwise.

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10yr ago

I wouldn't say this is a search. It's a highlighter of DOM elements which match a simple criteria. You can create awesome UX but it is not comparable with real client-side search libs like lunr.js which comes with tokenizer et al. Please don't get me wrong - i like your library and will use it. It's just the claim that has expect me something different as i had read the first time your README.

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10yr ago

Algolia

Maker

@llabball Thanks for your comment. An interesting remark you made about it not *technically* being search and I agree with you about that. This project is a simple exact-word check without ordering etc. and that's still useful. A highlighter of DOM elements is indeed a correcter term, but I'm not really sure if it's that much more clear to a person who has no knowledge of search algorithms etc. and that's why I'll probably keep calling it search.

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10yr ago

This is exactly what we need to live-filter a list of events based on user-inputted text (venue, city, etc). I've passed it on to the project's developer. Thanks!

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10yr ago