Localized stringfile containing messages used in Sails command-line interface and runtime.
This project is an early-stage work in progress to make all strings used in Sails humanLanguageAgnostic. That includes console messages, comments in generated code files, and even errors. This is a big project, but just one small part of the effort towards making Sails more accessible to non-native English readers/speakers.
- Environment variables are used to determine a user's locale. (defaults to English)
// From Sails core, an adapter, a generator, a hook, or some other dependency:
var STRINGFILE = require('sails-stringfile');
// Internally, this module runs node's native `util.format()` method,
// so you can also template strings:
var localizedMessage = STRINGFILE.get('cli.new.success', ['myApp', {some:'stuff'}, 'more stuff'])
// Then, appropriate msg is brought in auf deutsch, espanol, traditional chinese, english, etc.
console.log(localizedMessage);
Current language support targets are:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Traditional Chinese
- German
(please send a PR if you have a request and we'll add it to this list!)
- The existing strings need to be pulled out of log messages and errors in:
- sails core
- anchor core
- waterline core
- sails-generate-*
- sails-hook-*
- sails-adapter-* (adapters)
See the complete list of modules here: https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/blob/master/MODULES.md
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Code comments and other support files (like README) in newly generated sails modules (or a new project) should be pulled out into the generator scope and brought in using the same mechanism. This is only relevant for generators:
- sails-generate-new
- sails-generate-frontend
- sails-generate-backend
- sails-generate-views
- sails-generate-gruntfile
- sails-generate-controller
- sails-generate-model
- sails-generate-generator
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A stringfile needs to be created in the
locales
in this repository for each language we want to support, mapping the string keys to a reasonable log message in the target language (the English stringfile is a good reference to see how a particular type of message should be worded, etc.).
MIT c. Mike McNeil 2014