Just like ruby's Abbrev.
Usage:
var abbrev = require("abbrev");
abbrev("foo", "fool", "folding", "flop");
// returns:
{ fl: 'flop'
, flo: 'flop'
, flop: 'flop'
, fol: 'folding'
, fold: 'folding'
, foldi: 'folding'
, foldin: 'folding'
, folding: 'folding'
, foo: 'foo'
, fool: 'fool'
}
This is handy for command-line scripts, or other cases where you want to be able to accept shorthands.
4.0.0 (2025-10-20)
abbrev now supports node ^20.17.0 || >=22.9.0Fuzzyset.js is a package that provides fuzzy string matching. It can be used to find strings that approximate other strings but does not generate abbreviations. It is more complex and suitable for cases where you want to match user input against a list of strings and find the closest match.
This package is used to find how similar two strings are or to find the best match in an array of strings. Unlike abbrev, it does not create abbreviations but rather compares strings for similarity, which can be useful in search algorithms and typo correction.
FAQs
Like ruby's abbrev module, but in js
The npm package abbrev receives a total of 23,608,196 weekly downloads. As such, abbrev popularity was classified as popular.
We found that abbrev demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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