Am I supposed to use this plugin to obtain translation files?

[arnaudriegert]

Hi

I posted a comment on a create-react-app issue but I realize I should maybe ask the question here instead.

I used this plugin to extract all translatable strings from my app and it works fine. I have a json file for each js file that contains a translatable string, which all go in my build/messages directory.

However, those are not translation files: I still need to compile all the message IDs from all those files and then create a dictionary for each language, with the message IDs as keys and the translations as values, preferably each in a JSON file. I also need to update those files when I add new messages.

I found this software that does it (and seems to do it quite nicely from what I've tested) but it feels like there should be a command to automate this step.

After some research, the two closest things I found to what I am trying to do are:

• this script from a react-intl example
• and this one from react-boilerplate

I imagined there would be a simple command to achieve this. Am I missing something? How do people manage this usually? Do they need to compile the translations files by hand?

Thanks in advance!

[arnaudriegert]

In the meantime, I wrote this script that does the equivalent of msgmerge in gettext: we update the JSON for each language to add the missing keys (with "" as the initial value, to be completed by the translator) and remove the obsolete ones. The default langugage's JSON is updated with the default values from the descriptors.

Hope this helps.

[plondon]

I think most people use https://github.com/GertjanReynaert/react-intl-translations-manager to create the translation files

[longlho]

close due to stale