Demo is not working

[trusktr]

reproduce:

• go to https://olivernn.github.io/moonwalkers/
• Notice there is an "Alan Shepard" section in the page.
• Try searching for "shep"
• notice there are no results.

And similar with other searches.

Screenshot:

[niknbr]

I suppose since it is a matching terms, and there is not word shep on the page, it would not show any results.

Instead we can use wildcard matching shep*, in which case it matches Shepard. ref

[trusktr]

Ah, I see! Most website searches that I know of work more like a fuzzy finder, which I believe many people expect.

A few examples:

• https://threejs.org/docs/index.html#manual/en/introduction/Creating-a-scene
• https://airbnb.io/lottie
• https://www.assemblyscript.org/introduction.html

Is there an option to enable fuzzy search?

[niknbr]

Yes it supports fuzzy search like this shep~1 where 1 is the edit distance. More details here

[olivernn]

The demo site is intended only to be able to demo the features of Lunr. The input entered in the search box is passed straight to lunr.Index#search. This doesn’t add any implicit wildcards or any other modifiers as already mentioned.

You’re right that in many cases wildcard or fuzzy searching would be a user’s expectation. Using lunr.Index#query it is possible to have that level of control on how a query is interpreted.