🧪 Starting the matching algo

src/client/shared/utils/searchmatchscorer.utils.ts

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+import { each, isUndefined, isNull } from "lodash";
+const stringSimilarity = require("string-similarity");
+
+export const matchScorer = (searchMatches, searchQuery) => {
+  // 1. Check if it exists in the db (score: 0)
+  // 2. Check if issue name matches strongly (score: ++)
+  // 3. Check if issue number matches strongly (score: ++)
+  // 4. Check if issue covers hash match strongly (score: +++)
+  // 5. Check if issue year matches strongly (score: +)
+  const score = 0;
+  console.log("yedvadkar", searchMatches);
+  each(searchMatches, (match, idx) => {
+    if (!isNull(searchQuery.issue.meta.normalized) && !isNull(match.name)) {
+      const issueNameScore = stringSimilarity.compareTwoStrings(
+        searchQuery.issue.meta.normalized,
+        match.name,
+      );
+      match.score = issueNameScore;
+      console.log("name score" + idx + ":", issueNameScore);
+    } else {
+      console.log("match not possible");
+    }
+  });
+  return searchMatches;
+
+  // check for the issue name match
+};