Web-speller

This documents the first encounter with [hfst-ospell-js

https://github.com/killercup/hfst-ospell-js] and ck-ospell as encountered by a nodejs/npm newbie.

Install a current npm/nodejs

At first, installing hfst-ospell-js failed using the outdated (as it turned out) native nodejs/npm on Fedora 23. Fumbling around with the native nodejs/npm installation wasted quite some time.

Info on getting nvm

Info on getting current nodejs/npm

Resulted in nvm install stable

Or (summary version):

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.2/install.sh | bash
nvm ls-remote
nvm current
nvm install stable

hfst-ospell-js

ck-ospell is built on this, so in retrospect installing this turned out to be an excercise in using npm …

git clone https://github.com/killercup/hfst-ospell-js.git
cd hfst-ospell-js/
git submodule update --init --recursive
npm install
mkdir etc
curl http://divvun.no/static_files/zhfsts/se.zhfst > etc/se.zhfst
npm test

ck-ospell

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/killercup/ck-ospell.git
cd ck-ospell
npm install
mkdir etc
curl http://divvun.no/static_files/zhfsts/se.zhfst > "etc/sme_NO.zhfst"
curl http://divvun.no/static_files/zhfsts/smj.zhfst > "etc/smj_NO.zhfst"
curl http://divvun.no/static_files/zhfsts/sma.zhfst > "etc/sma_NO.zhfst"
npm start

After this, ck-ospell on http://localhost:3000 works as announced