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Spellcheck Your Hugo Site With CSpell	2024-11-20T09:49:51-05:00	false	meta

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1. Install CSpell

2. Add config file

3. Ignore frontmatter

4. Ignore proper nouns

5. Fix spelling

6. Create custom dictionary

7. Add to build pipeline

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Here's the final .cspell.json config file.

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell/main/cspell.schema.json",
  "version": "0.2",
  "dictionaryDefinitions": [
    {
      "name": "exceptions",
      "path": ".dictionary",
      "addWords": true
    }
  ],
  "dictionaries": [
    "english",
    "ruby",
    "golang",
    "exceptions"
  ],
  "patterns": [
    {
      "name": "frontmatter",
      "pattern": "/^(-{3}|[+]{3})$(\\s|\\S)*?^\\1$/gm"
    },
    {
      "name": "proper_nouns",
      "pattern": "/[\\W_][A-Z][\\S]+/g"
    }
  ],
  "languageSettings": [
    {
      "languageId": "markdown",
      "ignoreRegExpList": [
        "frontmatter",
        "proper_nouns"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

npx cspell content/**/*.md

npx cspell --words-only --unique content/**/*.md >> .dictionary

sort -o .dictionary .dictionary