API Reference - CLI (@lingui/cli)

@lingui/cli manages locales, extracts messages from source files into message catalogs and compiles message catalogs for production use.

Install

  1. Install @lingui/cli as a development dependency:

    npm install --save-dev @lingui/cli
# yarn add --dev @lingui/cli

    Important

    Install also Babel core packages (@babel/core, babel-core@bridge):

    # Babel 6.x
npm install --save-dev babel-core@6
# yarn add --dev babel-core@6

# Babel 7.x
npm install --save-dev babel-core@^7.0.0-bridge.0 @babel/core
# yarn add --dev babel-core@^7.0.0-bridge.0 @babel/core

  2. Add following scripts to your package.json:

    {
   "scripts": {
      "add-locale": "lingui add-locale",
      "extract": "lingui extract",
      "compile": "lingui compile",
   }
}

Global options

--config <config>

Path to LinguiJS configuration file. If not set, the default file is loaded as described in LinguiJS configuration reference.

Commands

init

lingui init [--dry-run]

Installs all required packages based on project type. Recognized projects are:

--dry-run

Output commands which would run, but don’t execute them.

add-locale

lingui add-locale [locales...] [--format <format>]

This command creates a new directory for each locale in localeDir.

# Add English, French and Spanish locales
lingui add-locale en fr es
--format <format>

Format of message catalog (see format option).

extract

lingui extract [--clean] [--overwrite] [--format <format>] [--convert-from <format>] [--verbose]

This command extracts messages from source files and creates a message catalog for each language using the following steps:

  1. Extract messages from all *.jsx? files inside srcPathDirs

  2. Merge them with existing catalogs in localeDir (if any)

  3. Write updated message catalogs to localeDir

--clean

Remove obsolete messages from catalogs. Message becomes obsolete when it’s missing in the source code.

--overwrite

Update translations for sourceLocale from source.

--format <format>

Format of message catalogs (see format option).

--convert-from <format>

Convert message catalogs from previous format (see format option).

--verbose

Prints additional information.

compile

lingui compile [--strict] [--format <format>] [--verbose] [--namespace <namespace>]

This command compiles message catalogs in localeDir and outputs minified Javascript files. Each message is replaced with a function that returns the translated message when called.

Also, language data (pluralizations) are written to the message catalog as well.

--strict

Fail if a catalog has missing translations.

--format <format>

Format of message catalogs (see format option).

--verbose

Prints additional information.

--namespace

Specify namespace for compiled message catalogs (also see compileNamespace for global configuration).