Show HN: Fuzzy-redirect- preventing 404s by auto-redirect to closest valid route
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excited
Sentiment
positive
Category
startup_launch
Key topics
Npm Library
404 Handling
Fuzzy Matching
Web Development
the idea is pretty simple but useful - if a user lands on your website and encounters a 404, this uses a basic fuzzy URL matching to redirect to the closest valid URL very low effort to set up, just 46kb, no dependencies and I'm quite happy with it !
happy to hear feedback/ potential improvements
https://www.npmjs.com/package/fuzzy-redirect https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/fuzzy-redirect
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