Web-Components-i18n

This repository was made mostly with Stencil.js in mind but hopefully will receive more love and will be extended to cover more web components loving frameworks.

How to?

1. Run init to create initial configuration in your main directory.
2. Create directory you've provided in config (default is src/locales/i18n) and create there a default translation file (derfault is en.js).
3. Run extract to extract all of your translations.

How it works?

The module fills your files with translations found in your components. Module saves them as objects with key being an original string and value being a translation. For default language they are the same, for any additional language it will be ERR! No translation! until you provide translations to this file.

To extract translations make sure that your components are using attributes given in config - for instance trText="Text to be translated." will generated a key-pair in default translation of "Text to be translated.": "Text to be translated." and in every other locale file: "Text to be translated.": "ERR! No translation!".

This module does more though - it can also extract translations from ts/js files and even work with them! All you need to use is a function called reduceTranslations which gets following arguments:

1. translations translations object (np. content of default translation).
2. translationEntry which is essentially a text that is meant to be translated. The one that serves as a key in locale files.
3. vars optional parameter to work with string literals that contain variables.

String literals

To work with string literals be sure to put them as simple strings, for instance: "This is variable ${this.world}" and to use this quantifier.

Side note: This behaviour will be altered soon and need of quantifier will be deprecated.

CLI

This module is, for now, only a CLI with following commands:

• init (Generates basic configuration.)
• extract-default (Extracts default translation.)
• extract (Extracts all translations.)

Sidenote: To use extract you have to create files first. For instance - you have default translation called en.js so if you want to have translations for norwegian language you have to add manually no.js and run extract. This will fill no.js with untranslated strings.

Todo

• Clean up
• Tests
• Make it more bulletproof
• Create translation files automatically by giving an array of names in the config.
• Export translation files to google drive.
• Import translation files from google drive.

Export / import from google should make translator's life easier.