# @kamilmielnik/trie
[Trie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie) data structure implemented in TypeScript:
- [Highly performant](#performance)
- No dependencies
- Lightweight
- [Well-documented](docs/README.md)
- Built for [Scrabble Solver](https://github.com/kamilmielnik/scrabble-solver)
- CJS & ESM compatible
# Table of contents
- [Installation](#installation)
- [API](#api)
- [Object-oriented API](#object-oriented-api)
- [Functional API](#functional-api)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [Load dictionary from file](#load-dictionary-from-file)
- [Serialize `Node` to a file](#serialize-node-to-a-file)
- [Load serialized `Node` from a file](#load-serialized-node-from-a-file)
- [Find all words with given prefix](#find-all-words-with-given-prefix)
- [Serialization and compression](#serialization-and-compression)
- [Performance](#performance)
# Installation
```Shell
# Bun
bun add @kamilmielnik/trie
# npm
npm install @kamilmielnik/trie
# Yarn
yarn add @kamilmielnik/trie
```
# [API](docs/README.md)
See full [API Docs](docs/README.md) - generated by [typedoc](http://typedoc.org/).
Good to know:
- all objects are mutable
- every class, interface, type, constant and function is exported
- all exports are named (there is no default export)
There are 2 ways to use the API.
## [Object-oriented API](docs/README.md#classes)
Create [`Trie`](docs/classes/Trie.md) instance and use its methods.
### Example
```ts
import { Trie } from '@kamilmielnik/trie';
const trie = new Trie();
trie.add('master');
trie.add('mask');
trie.hasPrefix('man'); // false
trie.hasPrefix('mas'); // true
trie.has('mas'); // false
trie.remove('mas'); // false
trie.has('master'); // true
trie.serialize(); // "(m(a(s(t(e(r))k))))"
trie.remove('master'); // true
trie.serialize(); // "(m(a(s(k))))"
```
## [Functional API](docs/README.md#functions)
Manipulate existing instances of [`Node`](docs/interfaces/Node.md) with [functions](docs/README.md#functions).
### Example
The following example works identically to the object-oriented example above.
```ts
import { add, has, hasPrefix, Node, remove, serialize } from '@kamilmielnik/trie';
const root: Node = {};
add(root, 'master');
add(root, 'mask');
hasPrefix(root, 'man'); // false
hasPrefix(root, 'mas'); // true
has(root, 'mas'); // false
remove(root, 'mas'); // false
has(root, 'master'); // true
serialize(root); // "(m(a(s(t(e(r))k))))"
remove(root, 'master'); // true
serialize(root); // "(m(a(s(k))))"
```
# Examples
- [Load dictionary from file](#load-dictionary-from-file)
- [Serialize `Node` to a file](#serialize-node-to-a-file)
- [Load serialized `Node` from a file](#load-serialized-node-from-a-file)
- [Find all words with given prefix](#find-all-words-with-given-prefix)
## Load dictionary from file
```ts
import { fromArray, Node } from '@kamilmielnik/trie';
import fs from 'fs';
const fromFile = (filepath: string): Node => {
const file = fs.readFileSync(filepath, 'utf-8');
// Assuming file contains 1 word per line
const words = file.split('\n').filter(Boolean);
const node = fromArray(words);
return node;
};
```
## Serialize [`Node`](docs/interfaces/Node.md) to a file
```ts
import { Trie } from '@kamilmielnik/trie';
import fs from 'fs';
const toFile = (filepath: string, trie: Trie): void => {
const serialized = trie.serialize();
fs.writeFileSync(filepath, serialized);
};
```
## Load serialized [`Node`](docs/interfaces/Node.md) from a file
```ts
import { deserialize, Node } from '@kamilmielnik/trie';
import fs from 'fs';
const fromFile = (filepath: string): Node => {
const serialized = fs.readFileSync(filepath, 'utf-8');
const node = deserialize(serialized);
return node;
};
```
## Find all words with given prefix
```ts
import { find, Node, toArray } from '@kamilmielnik/trie';
const findWordsWithPrefix = (node: Node, prefix: string): string[] => {
const prefixNode = find(node, prefix) || {};
const descendants = toArray(prefixNode, { prefix, sort: true, wordsOnly: true });
const words = descendants.map(({ prefix: word }) => word);
return words;
};
```
# Serialization and compression
This package can be used to efficiently [serialize](docs/functions/serialize.md) and compress dictionaries.
It reaches 66.40 [compression ratio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression_ratio) (98.49% space saving) for SJP.PL (pl-PL) when combined with [7-Zip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z) at ultra compression level.
| Language | πΊπΈ en-US | π¬π§ en-GB | π΅π± pl-PL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Name | [TWL06](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASPA_Word_List) | [SOWPODS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Scrabble_Words) | [SJP.PL](https://sjp.pl/slownik/dp.phtml) |
| Source | [Download](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kamilmielnik/scrabble-dictionaries/master/english/twl06.txt) | [Download](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kamilmielnik/scrabble-dictionaries/master/english/sowpods.txt) | [Download](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kamilmielnik/scrabble-dictionaries/master/polish/sjp.txt) |
| Words count | 178,690 | 267,751 | 3,229,855 |
| File size [B] | 1,763,166 | 2,707,020 | 42,172,320 |
| File size (serialized) [B] | (-42.38%) 1,016,004 | (-43.94%) 1,517,454 | (-69.40%) 12,903,507 |
| File size ([7z](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z)) [B] | (-78.54%) 378,418 | (-79.23%) 562,247 | (-86.84%) 5,550,546 |
| File size (serialized + [7z](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z)) [B] | (-89.25%) 189,484 | (-89.78%) 276,737 | (-98.49%) 635,085 |
# Performance
Benchmarks are produced by [`bench/index.ts`](bench/index.ts) using [tinybench](https://github.com/tinylibs/tinybench). Run `bun run bench` to regenerate the charts below.
[`add`](docs/functions/add.md), [`find`](docs/functions/find.md), [`has`](docs/functions/has.md), [`hasPrefix`](docs/functions/hasPrefix.md), [`remove`](docs/functions/remove.md) are very fast - $O(\log_2 n)$ (millions of operations per second).
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[`deserialize`](docs/functions/deserialize.md), [`fromArray`](docs/functions/fromArray.md), [`serialize`](docs/functions/serialize.md), [`toArray`](docs/functions/toArray.md) are slow - $O(n)$ (few operations per second).
