Does this framework support automatic syncing of new strings across locales?

[Nickersoft]

Hey @ivanhofer,

Been a user for some time now and love the project! One major pain point I'm always running into, however, is having to manual copy over new strings between all locales. Say I have 12 locales and add a new myString to en/index.ts. In order for the types to not break, I need to manually copy this string over to the 12 other locales (unless I wanna use a spread operator as mentioned in the docs to pull in base strings from en/index.ts). Otherwise the type system breaks, our CI fails, and I can't even get the strings to our localization provider. I'm curious if there's any way to support automatic syncing of new strings across locales. I know XCode does this if you modify your base .strings file. I looked through the docs but couldn't find an obvious answer, unless I missed something.

If not, curious what approaches other people have taken. Thanks!

[ivanhofer]

Hi @Nickersoft,

that functionality is currently not possible with the provided tools. I already have thought about this, but never had the time to implement it.
All needed functions are already available (exporter, importer and extendDictionary). Someone just needs to connect them, integrate it into the generator (probably here) and add a flag for it.

If you have a CI job that just does the syncing, then you could write a script that overrides the type of Translation to BaseTranslation just for that job to finish and push the strings. Or don't run type-checks at all during that job.