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## Localize Vue files with Django `makemessages`.md

      
        
          
            
              
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    NB: the whole approach of serving a Vue project through Django is less than ideal, so this can be seen as deprecated.

Intro

The goal of this gist is to be able to use the built-in makemessages command of Django on your Vue frontend. You can then expose a JavaScript catalog and localize your frontend using gettext.
Following assumptions are made:

The directory for the frontend lives in your Django project
You are using components (.vue files)

Include the JS Catalog view

Somewhere in urls.py: