Add missing keys to .po files from JavaScript

This plugin requires Grunt.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install pocreate --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('pocreate');

PoCreate lets you maintain your .po files by adding new keys to them after they've already been created.

Often you'll create your .po files, make changes to them (either by annotating them or by sending them to translators), and then want add new keys without regenerating the file completely and losing changes.

PoCreate simplifies this process by adding keys only where they don't exist.

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named pocreate to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  pocreate: {
    src: ['path/to/js/files/*.js'],
    options: {
      pos: ['path/to/po/files/*.po'],
      add_comments: '/',
      keyword: ['tr', 'translate']
    }
  },
})

Type: Array

An array of .po files to add translation keys to. These files will be updated with new keys found in the source files if the keys don't already exist.

Type: String Default value: '/'

A string that is used to scan for contextual comments for translators. This character must be the first character after a double slash comment. For insance, this is an example with the default value.

/// This is a contextual comment
gettext('Key');

Type: Array

An array of translation function keywords to scan the source files for.

The default value is ["gettext"].

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

• 0.1.0: Initial release

Copyright (c) 2014 Paul LeMarquand. Licensed under the MIT license.