@envsa/cspell-config

@envsa/cspell-config

CSpell configuration for @envsa/shared-config.

Overview

It's a shared CSpell config, plus a command-line tool envsa-cspell to perform CSpell-related project initialization and linting.

In addition to basic CSpell functionality, this package bundles a few extra features: It identifies "unused" words in your local CSpell configuration's ignore list that don't actually appear anywhere in your project, and it incorporates Case Police to enforce case consistency.

Note that automated fixes are handled via an ESLint integration provided in @envsa/eslint-config.

You can use this package on its own, but it's recommended to use @envsa/shared-config instead for a single-dependency and single-package approach to linting and fixing your project.

This package is included as a dependency in @envsa/shared-config, which also automatically invokes the command line functionality in this package via its envsa command

Setup

To use just this CSpell config in isolation:

1. Install the basic repository configuration files in your project root. This is required for correct PNPM behavior:

   pnpm --package=@envsa/repo-config dlx envsa-repo init

2. Add the package:

   pnpm add -D @envsa/cspell-config

3. Add the starter .cspell.json file to your project root, and add any customizations you'd like:

   pnpm exec envsa-cspell init

Usage

The CSpell binary should be picked up automatically by VS Code plugins.

You can call it directly, or use the script bundled with the config.

Integrate with your package.json scripts as you see fit, for example:

{
  "scripts": {
    "spellcheck": "envsa-cspell lint"
  }
}

Configuration

To create a cspell.config.ts in your project root:

pnpm exec envsa-cspell init

(Note that this will delete the cspell property in your package.json!)

Or

To create a cspell property in package.json:

pnpm exec envsa-cspell init --location package

(Note that this will delete the cspell.config.ts file in your project root!)

Ignoring files

CSpell is configured to automatically ignore files and paths in .gitignore (via "useGitignore": true), and to ignore words inside of ``` code fences in Markdown and MDX files.

Additional ignore patterns may be added to your project's CSpell config via the ignorePaths key.

Ignored files are automatically excluded from Case Police checks as well.

To exclude a specific file from Case Police checks, but to still check it with CSpell, include a comment:

// @case-police-disable

Ignoring specific words

Many words are included in the bundled dictionaries used by the shared configuration.

Additional words may be added to your project's CSpell config via the words key.

Specific words may be ignored on a per-file basis by including a comment:

/* spell-checker: ignore $WORD, $ANOTHER_WORD, $YET_ANOTHER_WORD*/

Likewise to ignore certain Case Police words:

// @case-police-ignore $WORD, $ANOTHER_WORD, $YET_ANOTHER_WORD

Ignoring code

See the CSpell documentation.

Blocks:

/* spell-checker:disable */ ... /* spell-checker:enable */

Disabling bundled dictionaries

In additional to CSpell's default dictionary configuration, this shared configuration enables a number of dictionaries that ship with CSpell for all file types:

• lorem-ipsum
• git
• npm
• fullstack
• software-terms

It also includes a number of custom dictionaries distributed with this package, all of which are enabled by default:

• envsa-acronyms Contains acronyms
• envsa-craft Contains words that crop up in Craft files
• envsa-ddev Contains words that are in DDEV config files
• envsa-files Contains file extensions and types
• envsa-misc Contains words that don't fit into any of the other dictionaries

In your project's root .cspell.config.ts, you can disable any combination of these dictionaries by adding them to the dictionaries array with a ! prefix.

For example, do disable the envsa-acronyms and envsa-misc dictionaries:

import { cspellConfig } from '@envsa/cspell-config';

export default cspellConfig({
  dictionaries: [
    '!envsa-acronyms',
    '!envsa-misc',
    // ...Additional !-prefixed dictionary names
  ],
});

Adding project-scoped words

In your project's root cspell.config.ts:

import { cspellConfig } from '@envsa/cspell-config';

export default cspellConfig({
  words: [
    'mountweazel',
    'steinlaus',
    'jungftak',
    'esquivalience',
    // ...Additional words
  ],
});

CLI

Command: envsa-cspell

Envsa's CSpell shared configuration tools. (Automated fixes are handled by ESLint.)

This section lists top-level commands for envsa-cspell.

Usage:

envsa-cspell <command>

Command	Argument	Description
init		Initialize by copying starter config files to your project root or to your package.json file.
lint	[files..]	Check for spelling mistakes. Matches files below the current working directory by default.
print-config		Print the resolved CSpell configuration. Package-scoped. Searches up to the root of a monorepo if necessary.

Option	Description	Type
--help -h	Show help	boolean
--version -v	Show version number	boolean

See the sections below for more information on each subcommand.

Subcommand: envsa-cspell init

Initialize by copying starter config files to your project root or to your package.json file.

Usage:

envsa-cspell init

Option	Description	Type	Default
--location	Where to store the configuration.	"file" "package"	"file"
--help -h	Show help	boolean
--version -v	Show version number	boolean

Subcommand: envsa-cspell lint

Check for spelling mistakes. Matches files below the current working directory by default.

Usage:

envsa-cspell lint [files..]

Positional Argument	Description	Type	Default
files	Files or glob pattern to lint.	array	"**/*"

Option	Description	Type
--help -h	Show help	boolean
--version -v	Show version number	boolean

Subcommand: envsa-cspell print-config

Print the resolved CSpell configuration. Package-scoped. Searches up to the root of a monorepo if necessary.

Usage:

envsa-cspell print-config

Option	Description	Type
--help -h	Show help	boolean
--version -v	Show version number	boolean

Notes

This config includes a bunch of words I've happened to have needed to use. Your preferences will vary.

As part of the lint command process, @envsa/cspell-config also runs a check to identify any words in your config file's "words" array that do not actually appear anywhere else in your project. This was inspired by Zamiell's cspell-check-unused-words project.

Credits

Eric Mika is the author of the original @kitschpatrol/shared-config project on which this is based.

License

MIT Liam Rella