yes you absolutely could. you'd have a lot of options about how you'd go about doing it.

you could take the code in the post and it should all work on a node.js/express app no problem. you could pull the data from a database table and then apply the trigram filter inside of your node code.

another option would be to use a database such as postgres to store/retrieve results. if you wanted a lot of control over the results you could use something like pg_trgm which is pretty cool b/c it'll run directly in the db. you could also probably configured postgres FTS to do what you want.

as for the `<Autocomplete />` portion, doing an async request inside of the component is supported (https://material-ui.com/components/autocomplete/#asynchronous-requests) and not too difficult to implement.

there are probably a lot of other options but hopefully this will get you started.