Localize CLI

CLI tool for translating strings and generating i18n files using the Google Translate API.

npm install --save localize-cli

To use this tool you'll need a Google Cloud Platform account to access the Google Translate API. It's not entirely painful to set up – I believe in you!

1. Create a Google Cloud Platform project
2. Enable billing
3. Enable the Google Cloud Translation API
4. Configure Google Cloud authentication on your local machine

   • Set up authentication with a service account

   • Move that json credentials file to somewhere like ~/.google/credentials.json

   • Update ~/.bash_profile with export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=~/.google/credentials.json

   • Reload bash profile with source ~/.bash_profile

   • Copy the project_id for the next step

Create a config file in your root directory called localize.cli.js with the following:

module.exports = {

  base_locale: 'en',
  
  locales: ['en', 'ja'],

  output: './locales.json',

  google_cloud_project_id: 'MY_GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID'
}

Typing this command in your terminal...

localize base.hello "Hello world"

... will generate a locales.json file like this:

{
  "en": {
    "base": {
      "hello": "Hello World"
    }
  },
  "ja": {
    "base": {
      "hello": "こんにちは世界"
    }
  }
}

• Publish to NPM – npm publish
• Command for removing translations by JSON key
• Allow config to exist in package.json or as CLI params
• Option to break each locale into separate JSON files
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