[Due for payment 2025-06-12] [Due for payment 2025-06-09] [$750] Investigate spell checking action for App codebase

[mountiny]

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Problem

We have typos/misspells across the codebase. For example, I saw following typos in a single file: TASK_TITLE_WITH_OPTONAL_SHORT_MENTION, reportRecipientAcountIDs, incoke

Background

We accept many contributions from all over the world, and sometimes, it can be difficult to spot such typos during code review. This is especially true when PRs need to be merged urgently to fix important bugs or if PRs are big enough (we can't simply go through each letter in changes to assure that the codebase doesn't have typos).

Solution

We can enable tools for spell checking. The most know one is cspell . We can integrate it as a part of our eslint pipeline (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cspell/eslint-plugin) or we can integrate it via GitHub actions as a standalone check using https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell-action.

Lets investigate how long would such action run if we run it on each commit on PRs only on the files that changed.

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @alexpensify

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Current assignee @mountiny is eligible for the AutoAssignerNewDotQuality assigner, not assigning anyone new.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @alexpensify (NewFeature), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/14418#:~:text=BugZero%20process%20steps%20for%20feature%20requests for more details. Please add this Feature request to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[kirillzyusko]

Hi, I'm Kiryl from Margelo expert agency and I'd like to work on this issue 🙌

[parasharrajat]

I would like to be C+ reviewer of this if needed. @mountiny

[parasharrajat]

I think we can add this as git Hook to check spellings. That should save us action hours and time.

[kirillzyusko]

git Hook to check spellings

Git hooks can be easily bypassed locally (with --no-verify flag). We should integrate it to CI process in my opinion (eslint or separate job)