Text search

[aboodman]

This needs a plan. Or should be removed from the UI :(.

[hamzaydia]

a live onChange search is a must

[isaachinman]

Hey everyone – sorry to ping a very old issue.

I'm evaluating Replicache now, and text search across a very large cache was the exact reason I cloned this repo to have a look.

Does anyone have any suggestions or examples of how to handle that in a reasonably performant way?

I have seen that a naive scan like this:

const matches = []

for await (const items of tx.scan()) {
  if (item.text.includes(searchQuery) {
    matches.push(item)
  }
}

Works fine for small datasets, but obviously falls apart with larger datasets.

Update: Did some digging and found the Assetbots writeup, which mentions Fuse. Have implemented this myself and can confirm it works nicely.

I think adding Fuse on a worker would be a nice touch to this repo.

[brandonzylstra]

I'll save everyone a search: https://www.fusejs.io/

[isaachinman]

After a deeper investigation, we found Fuse to be unusable for very large datasets. We settled on MiniSearch and are very happy with its implementation. Replicache+MiniSearch is a very powerful combo indeed

[brandonzylstra]

MiniSearch