clear workflow example

I am pretty sure I’m missing something basic here. But I don’t understand how is supposed to work in a full development cycle.

From my understanding:

1. Add strings to source code formatMessage('My Account Preferences')
2. Extract the strings to a json, yaml to be passed to translators format-message extract "src/**/*.js" > ./locales/en/messages.json
3. Load those strings into your code depending on your locale by formatMessage.setup(....

Now the problem is, if add a new string, the step2 will overwrite all the strings, how do I just add some? The same for removing? Basically the problem is how to handle the evolution of strings and its translations.

[vanwagonet]

How would the following be?

Source code:

var fm = require('format-message')
fm.setup({
  generateId: require('format-message-generate-id/underscored_crc32'),
  translations: require('./strings')
})
// ...
fm('Hello, {location}', { location: 'Montreal' })

$ format-message extract --format db -l en -g underscored_crc32 -o ./strings.json

strings.json:

{
  "en": {
    "hello_location_12ef23": { "message": "Hello, {location}" }
  },
  "fr": {
    "hello_location_12ef23": { "message": "Bonjour, {location}" }
  }
}

Running format-message extract would only modify the section matching the -l locale.

Or would you prefer translations to live right next to the original?

formatMessage.setup({
  generateId: require('format-message-generate-id/underscored_crc32'),
  translations: formatMessage.db(require('./strings'))
})

strings.json

{
  "hello_location_12ef23": {
    "message": "Hello, {location}",
    "description": "Greeting shown on the first screen.",
    "translations": {
      "fr": "Bonjour, {location}",
      "pt": "Olá, {location}"
    }
  }
}

[vanwagonet]

I’m afraid I haven’t prioritized any work on this since I switched to app development years ago. I’m open to review changes and give permissions to a new maintainer, but I won’t be making changes myself, as I no longer use the library or spend much time in the JavaScript ecosystem.