@inlang/plugin-message-format

Plugin inlang message format

This plugin stores messages in the inlang message format.

• supports all inlang messages features (variants, markup, etc.)
• typesafe

When to use

The message format is optimized to be edited with the ide-xtension

Use the inlang message format plugin if you have no previous translation files, or you want to migrate to the inlang format for a better experience. If you want to edit messages manually, the JSON translation files plugin is a better choice.

Settings

filePath: The path where the messages are stored.

Architecture

The plugin stores messages as one-to-one mapping in a JSON file.

Pros

• no need to for a parsing or serialization step for messages except for JSON.parse and JSON.stringify
• automatic support for all inlang features and typesafety

Cons

• storing the pattern as AST leads to more disk space usage than storing the pattern as string. a future optimization, if required (!), could store the pattern as a string but would require a parsing and serialization step for each message and a custom message type for typesafety.

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