Stack Namer

This is a very simple library that contains an algorithm to discover a "stack name" given an input of words.

What is a stack name

The best way to describe a stack name is to give an example. We are all aware of the LAMP stack, which comprises of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. This works as a "stack name" because it is a real english word that contains at least the first letter of each of the comprising technologies. Two alternative stack names for these technologies would have been PALM (PHP Apache Linux and MySQL) and PALMy (PHP Apache Linux and MySQL). As you can see this algorithm allows for more than one contiguous letter in the input word to be included in the output.

Basic Usage

var stacknamer = require('stack-namer');

stacknamer.search(['Linux', 'Apache', 'PHP', 'MySQL']).then(function(results) {
  console.log(results); // [ 'lamp', 'palm', 'palmy' ]
});

Advanced Usage

This library comes with a built in dictionary that it will search for stack names from. If you want to initialise the library with a different dictionary you can do that using the .init() function as follows:

var stacknamer = require('stack-namer');

stacknamer.init(['malp']); // not really a word but now this will be the only match

stacknamer.search(['Linux', 'Apache', 'PHP', 'MySQL']).then(function(results) {
  console.log(results); // [ 'malp' ]
});

Note: all of your dictionary words must be in lowercase.