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Typing "Brocoli" at 5 PM: Building Typo-Tolerant Search on Mobile

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Mobile keyboards are prone to typos, especially in busy grocery aisles. I walked through refactoring our Firestore search queries and client-side logic so queries like "brocoli" or "avcado" instantly resolve to the correct botanical entries without throwing empty states.

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  1. 2026-08-24 10:45 · DEV Community — AI
    Typing "Brocoli" at 5 PM: Building Typo-Tolerant Search on Mobile

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