Searching is a common feature in typical applications. Most search results are quite rigid, at most considered full-text search. Adding abit of fuzziness will make your application standout. Meaning if you search “erica”, it will return “erika”, “enrica”, “jan-eric”.
Let me show you how you can implement it using Mongo Altas and NodeJS. Do sign up a Sandbox account on Mongo Altas. This account only can upload up to maximum of 512M of data.
I will divide the setup into 4 parts:
MongoDB Altas: Setup Network Access, Create Database, Create Collection. Create User & Credentials, Create Search Index
MongoDB Compass: Setup, Save & Export Aggregation, Export Aggregation
NodeJS Setup: Install NPM dependencies, Modify Code Snippets, Edit Configuration
NodeJS Run: Start application, Search on browser
- MongoDB Altas
Security>Network Access
- Allowing access from anywhere with 0.0.0.0/24 entry.
Security>Database Access
- Create “fuzzy_user”…
