Search courses by short/long title, description

[drewvolz]

I think we’re only searching by short title right now. Use:

Algorithms and Data Structures reveals that “Algorithms/Data Struc” is searchable but the long title containing “Structures” is not

[hannesmcman]

Should we add "search by course description" to this as well?

[drewvolz]

Sure

[drewvolz]

Professor name causes me a problem. Searching for “Olaf Hall-Holt” does not return anything because it matches on “Olaf A. Hall-Holt”

[hawkrives]

Pull up a node repl and see if https://github.com/bevacqua/fuzzysearch handles that match

[drewvolz]

Ran

const fuzzysearch = require("fuzzysearch")
fuzzysearch('Olaf Hall-Holt', 'Olaf A. Hall-Holt')

Returns

true

https://runkit.com/drewvolz/5a873ff54612ac00128e7682

[rye]

Fuzzy is probably better, IMHO. People are more likely to make mistakes or be lazy on mobile.