Fuzzy-redirect- preventing 404s by auto-redirect to closest valid route

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needed this for some of my own websites so I made my very first npm library today :) the idea is pretty simple but useful - if a user lands on your website and encounters a 404, this uses a basic fuzzy URL matching to redirect to the closest valid URL very low effort to set up, just 46kb, no dependencies and I'm quite happy with it ! happy to hear feedback/ potential improvements https://www.npmjs.com/package/fuzzy-redirect https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/fuzzy-redirect

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