NuxJS i18n export translation messages to json files

README.md

• Install dependencies

npm install --save-dev cheerio glob
# or
yarn add -D cheerio glob

• Create the file extract-i18n-json.js in the project's root directory

• Create the export directory eg /i18n-json

• Add script in your package.json

 "scripts": {
    "export-json": "node extract-i18n-json.js"
  },

extract-i18n-json.js

const fs = require('fs')
const path = require('path')
const cheerio = require('cheerio')
const glob = require('glob')

const searchInPaths = ['./components', './pages', './layouts']

for (let d = 0; d < searchInPaths.length; d++) {
  const _dir = searchInPaths[d]

  glob(`${_dir}/**/*.vue`, {}, function(er, files) {
    for (let f = 0; f < files.length; f++) {
      exportFileTerms(files[f])
    }
  })
}

function exportFileTerms(fileToRead) {
  fs.readFile(fileToRead, 'utf8', (err, contents) => {
    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
    if (err) console.log(err)
    const $ = cheerio.load(contents)

    if ($('i18n').length) {
      const fileName = path.basename(fileToRead).toLowerCase()
      const t = $('i18n').text()
      const parsed = JSON.parse(t)
      if (parsed.en) {
        fs.writeFileSync(
          `i18n-json/${fileName}.json`,
          JSON.stringify(parsed.en, null, 4)
        )
      }
    }
  })
}