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url: /search-engines.md
description: >-
  Plug any search engine into VPick. Fuzzy search, full-text search in the
  browser, or a server, with its ranking kept.
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# Search engines

VPick's built-in search matches text in the label, and in any
[`searchKeys`](/components/vpick/search#searching-other-fields) you name. When
you need more, such as typo tolerance, relevance ranking or searching long
descriptions, plug in a search engine through
[`fetchOptions`](/components/vpick/search#searching-a-server).

`fetchOptions` receives what the user typed and returns the matching options.
VPick shows them in the order they come back, so the engine's ranking is kept,
and handles the rest: waiting for typing to pause, cancelling stale requests,
the searching and error rows, and keeping picked options after the results
change.

## Pick your engine

## Which one

| You have                                                  | Use                                           |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| A few thousand short labels, and people misspell them     | [Fuse.js](/search-engines/fuse)               |
| Records with longer text, such as titles and descriptions | [FlexSearch](/search-engines/flexsearch)      |
| More data than belongs in the page, or it changes often   | [Your server](/search-engines/server)         |
| Short labels, spelled right                               | Nothing extra. The built-in search is enough. |

VPick has no dependencies of its own, and none of these become one. You install
the engine you choose in your app.