Programmatic use of fbt-translate

[alexandernanberg]

I'd like to generate translations files on-demand, so translations changes go live without having to deploy the site. E.g.

Translation service (Crowdin) -> Transform translations (fbt-translate) -> CDN -> Website

Crowdin have web hooks so the transformation is only run whenever a translation changes. I've got pretty much everything working except the transformation part. AFAIK there is no way of running the transform in plain JS but you must use the script, which isn't convenient for this particular case. Is there a nice way of getting around this or do I have to inline a bunch of fbt internals in my script?

Anyone got pointer or have done something similar?

[kayhadrin]

Interesting question timing. I was just thinking of that too: #334 (comment)

Could you share more context about how you are serving the JS code to browsers?
And how/where the translations are served to the clientside?

With more info about this, we could offer better advice.

[alexandernanberg]

So we have a CI job that runs whenever a change is made in our app, running fbt-manifest, fbt-collect and then uploads the source_strings.json file to Crowdin (or whatever service you might use). When a translation is added/changed we trigger a lambda fn that pulls down the source_strings.json + translation files from Crowdin and then runs fbt-transform. The output is then uploaded to a S3 bucket and served to the apps through a CDN.

The old/current setup is the same except without the lambda part, but instead has a daily CI job that pulls down translations, runs fbt-translate and creates a PR.