jupyterlab-spellchecker 0.5.0

A spell checker for JupyterLab.

jupyterlab-spellchecker

A JupyterLab extension highlighting misspelled words in markdown cells within notebooks and in the text files.

The JupyterLab extension is based on the spellchecker Jupyter Notebook extension and relies on Typo.js for the actual spell checking. Spellchecker suggestions are available from the context menu.

The extension provides (Hunspell) SCOWL dictionaries for:

• American, British, Canadian, and Australian English
• French,
• German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
• Portuguese,
• Spanish.

JupyterLab Version

The extension has been tested up to JupyterLab version 3.0.

Installation

For JupyterLab 3.x:

pip install jupyterlab-spellchecker

For JupyterLab 2.x:

jupyter labextension install @ijmbarr/jupyterlab_spellchecker

Contributing

Development install

Note: You will need NodeJS to build the extension package.

The jlpm command is JupyterLab's pinned version of yarn that is installed with JupyterLab. You may use yarn or npm in lieu of jlpm below.

# Clone the repo to your local environment
# Change directory to the jupyterlab_spellchecker directory
# Install package in development mode
pip install -e .
# Link your development version of the extension with JupyterLab
jupyter labextension develop . --overwrite
# Rebuild extension Typescript source after making changes
jlpm run build

You can watch the source directory and run JupyterLab at the same time in different terminals to watch for changes in the extension's source and automatically rebuild the extension.

# Watch the source directory in one terminal, automatically rebuilding when needed
jlpm run watch
# Run JupyterLab in another terminal
jupyter lab

Before commit

Make sure that eslint passes:

jlpm run eslint:check

If there are any issues it might be possible to autofix them with:

jlpm run eslint