Welcome to CSpell

A Spell Checker for Code!

cspell is a command line tool and library for spell checking code.

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Features

• Spell Checks Code – Able to spell check code by parsing it into words before checking against the dictionaries.
• Supports CamelCase, snake_case, and compoundwords naming styles.
• Self contained – does not depend upon OS libraries like Hunspell or aspell. Nor does it depend upon online services.
• Fast – checks 1000’s of lines of code in seconds.
• Programming Language Specific Dictionaries – Has dedicated support for:
  • JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, C#, C++, LaTex, Go, HTML, CSS, etc.
• Customizable – supports custom dictionaries and word lists.
• Continuous Integration Support – Can easily be added as a linter to Travis-CI.

CSpell was initially built as the spell checking service for the spell checker extension for Visual Studio Code.

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Installation

npm install -g cspell

Basic Usage

Example: recursively spell check all JavaScript files in src

JavaScript files

cspell "src/**/*.js"
# or
cspell lint "src/**/*.js"

Check everything

cspell "**"

Getting Started

See: Getting Started

Requirements