Export as 1 file

[ngdangtu-vn]

🚀 Feature Proposal

I would like to export the translation as 1 language file with all the namespace in it.

Motivation

Not every project are big enough to necessarily make multiple files per a language.

Example

I think if the output only have one $LOCALE, the parser should export 1 file contains all the namespace and translation in it. If it have $LOCALE and $NAMESPACE, the parser will create many files.

[karellm]

What is the issue with having multiple files? My assumption is that if the project is so small then it probably isn't changing much either.

[ngdangtu-vn]

Some translation tools doesn't support multiple files :D (ex. POEditor)

[karellm]

I'm not a fan of obscure configurations that trigger a behaviour like you suggested. That said you are welcome to open a PR with a configuration option name 'concatenateNamespaces` or something like that.

[ngdangtu-vn]

I'm busy currently, but I would love to learn the source code and contribute it. (Kinda busy in this month, maybe next month? Does it sound good? 😁)

[mattrigg9]

You can do this now with the following sample config:

module.exports = {
  namespaceSeparator: false,
  output: "src/locales/$LOCALE/translations.json"
};