Improved speed of search and made it fuzzy search

functions/handlers/users.js

@@ -331,6 +331,24 @@ exports.getUserDetails = (req, res) => {
     });
 };
 
+exports.getAllHandles = (req, res) => {
+  var user_query = admin.firestore().collection("users");
+  user_query.get()
+  .then((allUsers) => {
+      let users = [];
+      allUsers.forEach((user) => {
+          users.push(user.data().handle);
+      });
+      return res.status(200).json(users);
+  })
+  .catch((err) => {
+    return res.status(500).json({
+      message:"Failed to retrieve posts from database.", 
+      error: err
+    });
+  });
+};
+
 exports.getAuthenticatedUser = (req, res) => {
   let credentials = {};
   db.doc(`/users/${req.user.handle}`)

functions/index.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ app.use(cors());
  *------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 const {
   getAuthenticatedUser,
+  getAllHandles,
   getUserDetails,
   getProfileInfo,
   login,
@@ -39,6 +40,10 @@ app.delete("/delete", fbAuth, deleteUser);
 
 app.post("/getUserDetails", fbAuth, getUserDetails);
 
+// Returns a list of all usernames
+// Used for searching
+app.get("/getAllHandles", fbAuth, getAllHandles);
+
 // Returns all profile data of the currently logged in user
 app.get("/getProfileInfo", fbAuth, getProfileInfo);