Export i18n translations to JSON.
A perfect fit if you want to export translations to JavaScript.
Oh, you don't use Ruby? No problem! You can still use i18n-js
and the
companion JavaScript package.
## Installation
```bash
gem install i18n-js
```
Or add the following line to your project's Gemfile:
```ruby
gem "i18n-js", "~> 4.0.0.alpha1"
```
## Usage
About patterns:
- Patterns can use `*` as a wildcard and can appear more than once.
- `*` will include everything
- `*.messages.*`
- Patterns starting with `!` are excluded.
- `!*.activerecord.*` will exclude all ActiveRecord translations.
The config file:
```yml
---
translations:
- file: app/frontend/locales/en.json
patterns:
- "*"
- "!*.activerecord"
- "!*.errors"
- "!*.number.nth"
- file: app/frontend/locales/:locale.:digest.json
patterns:
- "*"
```
The output path can use the following placeholders:
- `:locale`: the language that's being exported.
- `:digest`: the MD5 hex digest of the exported file.
The Ruby API:
```ruby
require "i18n-js"
I18nJS.call(config_file: "config/i18n.yml")
I18nJS.call(config: config)
```
The CLI API:
```console
$ i18n init --config config/i18n.yml
$ i18n export --config config/i18n.yml --require config/environment.rb
```
By default, `i18n` will use `config/i18n.yml` and `config/environment.rb` as the
configuration files. If you don't have these files, then you'll need to specify
both `--config` and `--require`.
## Automatically export translations
### Using watchman
Create a script at `bin/i18n-watch`.
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
root=`pwd`
watchman watch-del "$root"
watchman watch-project "$root"
watchman trigger-del "$root" i18n
watchman -j <<-JSON
[
"trigger",
"$root",
{
"name": "i18n",
"expression": [
"anyof",
["match", "config/locales/**/*.yml", "wholename"],
["match", "config/i18n.yml", "wholename"]
],
"command": ["i18n", "export"]
}
]
JSON
# If you're running this through Foreman,
# the uncomment the following lines:
# while true; do
# sleep 1
# done
```
Make it executable with `chmod +x bin/i18n-watch`. To watch for changes, run
`./bin/i18n-watch`. If you're using Foreman, make sure you uncommented the lines
that keep the process running (`while..`), and add something like the following
line to your Procfile:
```
i18n: ./bin/i18n-watch
```
### Using guard
Install [guard](https://rubygems.org/packages/guard) and
[guard-compat](https://rubygems.org/packages/guard-compat). Then create a
Guardfile with the following configuration:
```ruby
guard(:"i18n-js",
run_on_start: true,
config_file: "./config/i18n.yml",
require_file: "./config/environment.rb") do
watch(%r{^(app|config)/locales/.+\.(yml|po)$})
watch(%r{^config/i18n.yml$})
watch("Gemfile")
end
```
If your files are located in a different path, remember to configure file paths
accordingly.
Now you can run `guard start -i`.
### Using listen
Create a file under `config/initializers/i18n.rb` with the following content:
```ruby
Rails.application.config.after_initialize do
require "i18n-js/listen"
I18nJS.listen
end
```
The code above will watch for changes based on `config/i18n.yml` and
`config/locales`. You can customize these options with
`I18nJS.listen(config_file: "config/i18n.yml", locales_dir: "config/locales")`.
### Integrating with your frontend
You're done exporting files, now what? Well, go to
[i18n](https://github.com/fnando/i18n) to discover how to use the NPM package
that loads all the exported translation.
### FAQ
#### How can I export translations without having a database around?
Some people may have a build process using something like Docker that don't
necessarily have a database available. In this case, you may define your own
loading file by using something like
`i18n export --require ./config/i18n_export.rb`, where `i18n_export.rb` may look
like this:
```ruby
# frozen_string_literal: true
require "bundler/setup"
require "rails"
require "active_support/railtie"
require "action_view/railtie"
I18n.load_path += Dir["./config/locales/**/*.yml"]
```
Notice that you may not need to load ActiveSupport and ActionView lines, or even
may need to add additional requires for other libs. With this approach you have
full control on what's going to be loaded.
## Maintainer
- [Nando Vieira](https://github.com/fnando)
## Contributors
- https://github.com/fnando/i18n-js/contributors
## Contributing
For more details about how to contribute, please read
https://github.com/fnando/i18n-js/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md.
## License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the
[MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). A copy of the license can be
found at https://github.com/fnando/i18n-js/blob/main/LICENSE.md.
## Code of Conduct
Everyone interacting in the i18n-js project's codebases, issue trackers, chat
rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the
[code of conduct](https://github.com/fnando/i18n-js/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).