Feature request: Whitelist default messages language

I’d like to be able to configure a language for all default translations. This would essentially treat any message that has a defaultMessage as a whitelisted item for the specified language.

{
  ...
  defaultMessagesLanguage: 'en',
}

Treat all messages with a defaultMessage set as “en” and add to whitelist_en.

[mirague]

@alampros

We also found ourselves wanting to have the default messages in en.json, and went for this approach:

import manageTranslations, {
  readMessageFiles,
  createSingleMessagesFile,
  getDefaultMessages
} from 'react-intl-translations-manager';

const messagesDirectory = 'src/locales/extractedMessages';
const translationsDirectory = 'src/locales';

// Output Default Messages 
const extractedMessages = readMessageFiles(messagesDirectory);
createSingleMessagesFile({
  messages: getDefaultMessages(extractedMessages).messages,
  directory: translationsDirectory,
  fileName: 'en.json'
});

// Manage the Translations
manageTranslations({
  messagesDirectory,
  translationsDirectory,
  languages: ['sv']
});

This way you get the result you’re looking for without having the console complain about missing translations.

[sunknudsen]

Thanks for sharing @mirague. This is exactly what I was looking for.