intl-translate v2.2.4

intl-translate

automatical workflow to solve intl resource load problem.

• collect intl messages meta data generated by plugin like babel-plugin-react-intl

• fetch suggestion for each language

• pick the best translation

• save into local locale files, which are required directly by source code

Usage

• setup

  $ npm i intl-translate --save-dev

• intl.config.js

  module.exports = function (config) {
    return Object.assign({},
      config,
      {
        middleware: {
          pre: 'summary?source=i18n-messages',
          process: ['youdao?langs[]=cn,langs[]=en', 'reduce?local=locales'],
          emit: 'save?dest=locales',
        },
      }
    );
  };

• run

  $ node_modules/.bin/intl-translate

Options

  Usage: intl-translate [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help      output usage information
    -v, --version   output the version number
    --config <dir>  where is the config file, default is intl.config.js

Middleware

intl-translate middlewares will execute one by one, with three parameters:

plugins.reduce((a, b) => {
  if (a instanceof Promise) {
    return a.then(result => b.plugin(result, b.query, context));
  }
  return b.plugin(a, b.query, context);
}, Promise.resolve());

• result: return value of previous middleware
• query: parameters passed to current middleware, parse from option.config(default is intl.config.js)
• context: intl-translate context

Life cycle

Middlewares contains three stage, each stage share the same data structure

Built-in middlewares

summary: collect origin data generated from babel-plugin-react-intl

returns:

[{
  id: 'totalPrice',
  description: '展示订单总额',
  defaultMessage: '订单全额'
}, {
  id: 'count',
  description: '显示订单中商品数量',
  defaultMessage: '数量'
}]

google: add translate result for each language from google

returns:

[{
  id: 'totalPrice',
  description: '展示订单总额',
  defaultMessage: '订单全额',
  cn: ['订单总价', '订单全额', '订单价格'],
  en: ['totalPrices', 'totalPrice']
}, {
  id: 'count',
  description: '显示订单中商品数量',
  defaultMessage: '数量',
  cn: ['数量', '数目'],
  en: 'count'
}]

educe: pick the best translation of each id in terminal

returns:

[{
  id: 'totalPrice',
  description: '展示订单总额',
  defaultMessage: '订单全额',
  cn: '订单总价',
  en: 'totalPrice'
}, {
  id: 'count',
  description: '显示订单中商品数量',
  defaultMessage: '数量',
  cn: '数目',
  en: 'count'
}]

save: save into json

returns: true || false