i18n-js CLI 4.0.0.alpha4 has been released!

[fnando]

Hey everyone! It's been a while!

I'm going to release the final i18n-js v4 next week. As many of you already know, this is a breaking release. So, if you won't migrate to v4, make sure you have your project pinned down to v3. Notice that v3 won't receive any further development efforts.

We have a new release up on RubyGems. What's new, you may ask. Here it is:

Checking for missing translations

The i18n check command will check your loaded translations and output the keys that don't have an equivalent key against the default locale. Here's what it looks like:

Add digest to exported files' name

Your configuration can now have :digest as part of exported files. This will generate a cache-bursting file with the embedded md5 hex digest.

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That is it! Take care!

Nando V.

[ryanb]

@fnando Thanks for your work on this!

Is there an upgrade guide somewhere?

[fnando]

Hey Ryan, I didn't had the chance to write this yet, but the gist of the process is:

1. yarn add i18n-js to add the JavaScript dependency
2. Update config/i18n.yml to use the new pattern for matching files (check the readme file)
3. For development, choose a way to track changes on your files and re-export the translations (I'm using watchman for a bunch of stuff, so that's my personal choice, but you can use guard or listen for that as well; there's a section about this on the readme file).
4. For production, you can either save the exported translations (I don't do this) or export translations using i18n export during your build step.

Feel free to ping this thread if you find any issues while upgrading.

[fnando]

Just wrote a proper document, but it may still be missing some migration info. If you find any issues during the migration, let me know and I'll update the document. ;)

https://github.com/fnando/i18n-js/blob/main/MIGRATING_FROM_V3_TO_V4.md

[ryanb]

Thanks! I plan to try this out near the end of this week.