✨ Magic Object Search

magic-object-search is a lightweight utility library published on npm, designed to simplify searching through arrays of objects in TypeScript or JavaScript environments. It provides a simple yet powerful function to search for a specific string within specified properties of objects in an array.

Installation

You can install magic-object-search via npm:

npm install magic-object-search

Usage

To use magic-object-search, import the magicObjectSearch function and pass in the search string, array of objects, and properties to search within.

import { magicObjectSearch } from 'magic-object-search';

interface MyObject {
  id: number;
  name: string;
  description: string;
}

const objects: MyObject[] = [
  { id: 1, name: '🍎 Apple', description: 'A fruit with red or green skin' },
  { id: 2, name: '🍌 Banana', description: 'A long curved fruit that grows in clusters' },
  { id: 3, name: '🍊 Orange', description: 'A round citrus fruit with a tough shiny orange skin' }
];

const searchResults = magicObjectSearch('fruit', objects, ['name', 'description']);
console.log(searchResults);

/* Output: 
[
      {
            id: 1,
            name: '🍎 Apple',
            description: 'A fruit with red or green skin'
      },
      {
            id: 2,
            name: '🍌 Banana',
            description: 'A long curved fruit that grows in clusters'
      }
]
*/

API

magicObjectSearch<T>(str: string, options: T[], properties: (keyof T)[]): T[]

• str (string): The string to search for within the specified properties of objects.
• options (T[]): An array of objects to search within.
• properties (keyof T)[]: An array of property names (keys) within objects to search for the given string.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues or pull requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.