An API search engine in Elm for Elm
summary
Elm-search is an Elm-built search engine that indexes the documentation JSON of every latest published package, creating a single searchable index of 15,000 exposed functions. It parses type annotations into a custom type AST and scores results with a normalized distance metric that handles lists, order-insensitive argument matching, numeric/float/int and container correspondences, enabling approximate type matching. The index loads in memory and the UI compares query types to return ranked matches.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:27Packages
- 0:45Encoding
- 1:14Modular Model
- 1:29Packages on Fire
- 1:42Documentation
- 2:02Type annotation
- 2:19Jonas documentation
- 2:35Jonas handlers
- 3:37Distance hunter
- 4:05List comparison
- 4:31List distance
- 4:47Conclusion
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