this version will run with npm start, but when attempting to run the built version behind nginx, it appears to have issues
leven 
Measure the difference between two strings
One of the fastest JS implementations of the Levenshtein distance algorithm
Install
$ npm install leven
Usage
const leven = require('leven');
leven('cat', 'cow');
//=> 2
Benchmark
$ npm run bench
165,926 op/s » leven
164,398 op/s » talisman
1,044 op/s » levenshtein-edit-distance
628 op/s » fast-levenshtein
497 op/s » levenshtein-component
195 op/s » ld
190 op/s » levenshtein
168 op/s » levdist
10 op/s » natural
Related
- leven-cli - CLI for this module
License
MIT © Sindre Sorhus