website-proofreader

Proofreads HTML for spelling and grammar mistakes. I made this because I am a better programmer than a speller. I had many mistakes that would slip through no matter how many times I read over the code. Everyone has heard the saying "if you do not laugh you will cry". It got so bad I did both 😂. This is my atempt attempt to automate the correction process.

Installation

$ npm install website-proofreader

Features

• Spell checking for HTML by NSSpellChecker, Hunspell, or the Windows Spell Check API thanks to spellchecker
• Grammar check via write-good
• Can check HTML string or URL
• Supports spelling word whitelist

Methods

All examples assume:

let wpr = require('website-proofreader');

Check

Checks if there are on spelling/grammar errors.

interface CheckOptions {
	 source: string; // HTML or URL to check
	 dictionary: string[]; // words to ignore in the spelling check
	 grammarChecks: Object; // {@link https://www.npmjs.com/package/write-good#checks}
}

interface CheckResults {
	 source: string; // Text that was parsed. Any error indexs are valid on this string
	 grammar: GrammarError[]; // grammar errors
	 spelling: SpellingError[]; // spelling errors
}

interface SpellingError {
    word: string; // word with the issue
	 corrections: string[]; // Possible spelling corrections
	 indexStart: number; // index the word starts at
	 indexStop: number; // index the word ends at
}

interface GrammarError {
	 corrections: string[]; // Grammar issue explained
	 indexStart: number; // index the word starts at
	 indexStop: number; // index the word ends at
}

Check(options: CheckOptions): Promise<CheckResults>

Examples

 wpr.Check({
    source: "<p>speling is hard</p>"
 })
 .then(function (results)
 {
	 // This is true
	 results === {
       "source": "speling is hard",
       "grammar": [],
       "spelling": [
          {
             "word": "speling",
             "corrections": [
                "spelling",
                "spieling",
                "spilling",
                "spellings",
                "spewing"
             ],
             "indexStart": 0,
             "indexStop": 7
          }
   	]
    }
 });

 wpr.Check({
	 source: "<p>speling is hard</p>",
	 dictionary: ['speling'] // Add a word to the dictionary so it does not error anymore!
 })
 .then(function (results)
 {
	 // This is true
	 results === {
       "source": "speling is hard",
       "grammar": [],
       "spelling": []
    }
 });

  wpr.Check({
    source: '<span style="color:red">When writing, an error was made by me.</span>'
 })
 .then(function (results)
 {
	 // This is true
	 results === {
       "source": "speling is hard",
       "grammar": [
			 {
            "corrections": "\"was made\" may be passive voice",
            "indexStart": 23,
            "indexStop": 31
         }
		 ],
       "spelling": []
    }
 });

 wpr.Check({
	 source: '<span style="color:red">When writing, an error was made by me.</span>',
	 grammarChecks: {
		 passive: false // See https://www.npmjs.com/package/write-good#checks for all the checks
	 }
 })
 .then(function (results)
 {
	 // This is true
	 results === {
       "source": "speling is hard",
       "grammar": [],
       "spelling": []
    }
 });

More Examples

For more examples, check out the test folder in the GitHub repo!

Tests

To run the test suite, first install the dependencies, then run npm test:

$ npm install
$ npm test

Contributing

In lieu of a formal style guide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Format code with VS Code. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code.

People

Author and list of all contributors can be found in package.json

License

See the LICENSE file in the repo