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hunspell-spellchecker
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A lightweight spellchecker written in Javascript, it can be used in Node.JS and in the browser. It has been build to be pre-parse Hunspell dictionary to JSON.
$ npm install hunspell-spellchecker
Initialize a spellchecker instance:
var Spellchecker = require("hunspell-spellchecker");
var spellchecker = new Spellchecker();
Parse and serialize a dictionary
// Parse an hunspell dictionary that can be serialized as JSON
var DICT = spellchecker.parse({
aff: fs.readFileSync("./en_EN.aff");
dic: fs.readFileSync("./en_EN.dic")
});
Load a serialized dictionary
// Load a dictionary
spellchecker.use(DICT);
Check a word:
// Check a word
var isRight = spellchecker.check("tll");
FAQs
Parse and use Hunspell dictionaries in Javascript
The npm package hunspell-spellchecker receives a total of 66,834 weekly downloads. As such, hunspell-spellchecker popularity was classified as popular.
We found that hunspell-spellchecker demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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