How to extract missing translations?

[bfontaine]

Hello,
Is there any way to parse the code and extract the missing translations for a locale? I’m looking for a gettext-like workflow where I just use $t('whatever') in my code and then run a command to update the translation files with the new keys.
I didn’t find anything in the docs for that.
Thanks

[jarda-svoboda]

Hi @bfontaine, if i understand you correctly, you want to iterate through defined translation keys and then update translation records in case of missing entry?
If so, i would do something like this:

1. First of all, i would iterate your translation keys using $t('<CURRENT_KEY>', { default: 'undefined' }) (or t.get( ... )) and collect all keys for 'undefined' (default) value.

2. I would update translations for undefined keys either in your definition files or locally using addTranslations method.

Let me, please, know if it helped to you..

[bfontaine]

Hello, to clarify, I want a tool/command that I can run to statically extract all calls to $t(...) from my code and add the missing keys in the translation files.

The workflow would look like this:

1. Code, and use $t("...") where needed
2. Run npm run extract-translations
3. Let the translators know there are new translations to fill

[jarda-svoboda]

Oh, Ok. Currently, there are no CLI tools to extract used translations..

[bfontaine]

Ok, thank you for the response!