Angular translations extractor (plugin for @ngx-translate)
✓ Angular 14+, Ivy and Angular Universal (SSR) compatible
Extract translatable (ngx-translate) strings and save as a JSON or Gettext pot file. Merges with existing strings if the output file already exists.
This project was originally created by Kim Biesbjerg. Unfortunately he was unable to continue to maintain it so the Vendure team agreed to take over maintenance of this fork.
Install the package in your project:
npm install @vendure/ngx-translate-extract --save-dev
# or
yarn add @vendure/ngx-translate-extract --devChoose the version corresponding to your Angular version:
| Angular | ngx-translate-extract |
|---|---|
| >=17 | 9.x |
| 13 – 16 | 8.x |
| 8 – 12 | @biesbjerg/ngx-translate-extract 7.x |
Add a script to your project's package.json:
"scripts": {
"i18n:init": "ngx-translate-extract --input ./src --output ./src/assets/i18n/template.json --key-as-default-value --replace --format json",
"i18n:extract": "ngx-translate-extract --input ./src --output ./src/assets/i18n/{en,da,de,fi,nb,nl,sv}.json --clean --format json"
}You can now run npm run i18n:extract and it will extract strings from your project.
Extract from dir and save to file
ngx-translate-extract --input ./src --output ./src/assets/i18n/strings.jsonExtract from multiple dirs
ngx-translate-extract --input ./src-a ./src-b --output ./src/assets/i18n/strings.jsonExtract and save to multiple files using path expansion
ngx-translate-extract --input ./src --output ./src/i18n/{da,en}.jsonStrip prefix from the generated json keys
Useful when loading multiple translation files in the same application and prefixing them automatically
ngx-translate-extract --input ./src --output ./src/i18n/{da,en}.json --strip-prefix 'PREFIX.'Cache for consecutive runs
If your project grows rather large, runs can take seconds. With this cache, unchanged files don't need to be parsed again, keeping consecutive runs under .5 seconds.
ngx-translate-extract --cache-file node_modules/.i18n-cache/my-cache-file --input ./src --output ./src/i18n/{da,en}.jsonTabs are used by default for indentation when saving extracted strings in json formats:
If you want to use spaces instead, you can do the following:
ngx-translate-extract --input ./src --output ./src/i18n/en.json --format-indentation ' 'Extracted keys are by default not sorted. You can enable sorting by using the --sort or -s flag.
If sorting is enabled, the keys will be sorted using the default variant sort sensitivity. Other sort sensitivity options are also available using the --sort-sensitivity or -ss flag:
base: Strings that differ in base letters are unequal. For examplea !== b,a === á,a === Aaccent: Strings that differ in base letters and accents are unequal. For examplea !== b,a !== á,a === Acase: Strings that differ in base letters or casing are unequal. For examplea !== b,a === á,a !== Avariant: Strings that differ in base letters, accents, or casing are unequal. For examplea !== b,a !== á,a !== A
If you want to extract strings that are not passed directly to NgxTranslate.TranslateService's
get()/instant()/stream() methods, or its translate pipe or directive, you can wrap them
in a marker function/pipe/directive to let ngx-translate-extract know you want to extract them.
npm install @colsen1991/ngx-translate-extract-markerSee @colsen1991/ngx-translate-extract-marker documentation for more information.
Usage:
ngx-translate-extract [options]
Output
--format, -f Format [string] [choices: "json", "namespaced-json", "pot"] [default: "json"]
--format-indentation, --fi Format indentation (JSON/Namedspaced JSON) [string] [default: "\t"]
--sort, -s Sort strings in alphabetical order [boolean]
--sort-sensitivity, -ss Sensitivity when sorting strings (only when sort is enabled) [string]
--clean, -c Remove obsolete strings after merge [boolean]
--replace, -r Replace the contents of output file if it exists (Merges by default) [boolean]
--strip-prefix, -sp Strip prefix from key [string]
Extracted key value (defaults to empty string)
--key-as-default-value, -k Use key as default value [boolean]
--key-as-initial-default-value, -ki Use key as initial default value [boolean]
--null-as-default-value, -n Use null as default value [boolean]
--string-as-default-value, -d Use string as default value [string]
Options:
--version, -v Show version number [boolean]
--help, -h Show help [boolean]
--input, -i Paths you would like to extract strings from. You can use path expansion, glob patterns and
multiple paths [array] [required] [default: ["./"]]
--output, -o Paths where you would like to save extracted strings. You can use path expansion, glob
patterns and multiple paths [array] [required]
--cache-file Cache parse results to speed up consecutive runs [string]
--marker, -m Custom marker function name [string]
Examples:
ngx-translate-extract -i ./src-a/ -i ./src-b/ -o strings.json Extract (ts, html) from multiple paths
ngx-translate-extract -i './{src-a,src-b}/' -o strings.json Extract (ts, html) from multiple paths using brace expansion
ngx-translate-extract -i ./src/ -o ./i18n/da.json -o ./i18n/en.json Extract (ts, html) and save to da.json and en.json
ngx-translate-extract -i ./src/ -o './i18n/{en,da}.json' Extract (ts, html) and save to da.json and en.json using brace expansion
ngx-translate-extract -i './src/**/*.{ts,tsx,html}' -o strings.json Extract from ts, tsx and html
ngx-translate-extract -i './src/**/!(*.spec).{ts,html}' -o strings.json Extract from ts, html, excluding files with ".spec"
ngx-translate-extract -i './src/' -o strings.json -sp 'PREFIX.' Strip the prefix "PREFIX." from the json keysPlease pay attention of which version of gettext-parser you actually use in your project.
For instance, gettext-parser:1.2.2 does not support HTML tags in translation keys.
- Original library, idea and code: Kim Biesbjerg ❤️
- Further updates and improvements by bartholomej ❤️
- Further updates and improvements by P4 ❤️
- Further updates and improvements by colsen1991 ❤️
- Further updates and improvements by tmijieux ❤️