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Kim Biesbjerg committed Mar 21, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -12,29 +12,56 @@ Install the package in your project:
Add an `extract` script to your project's `package.json`:
```
"scripts": {
"extract": "ngx-translate-extract --dir ./src --output ./ --format=json --clean"
"extract": "ngx-translate-extract --input ./src --output ./src/assets/i18n/*.json --clean --sort --format namespaced-json"
}
```
You can now run `npm run extract` to extract strings from your project's `src` dir. The extracted strings are saved in `JSON`-format in your project's root.
You can now run `npm run extract` to extract strings.

## Commandline examples

**Extract from dir and save to file**

`ngx-translate-extract -i ./src -o ./src/i18n/strings.json`

**Extract from multiple dirs**

`ngx-translate-extract -i ./src/folder-a ./src/folder-b -o ./src/i18n/strings.json`

**Extract and save to multiple files**

`ngx-translate-extract -i ./src -o ./src/i18n/{da,en,fr}.json`

**or**

`ngx-translate-extract -i ./src -o ./src/i18n/da.json ./src/i18n/en.json ./src/i18n/fr.json`

**or (update only)**

`ngx-translate-extract -i ./src -o ./src/i18n/*.json`


Modify the scripts arguments as required.

## Commandline arguments
```
Usage:
ngx-translate-extract [OPTIONS] [ARGS]
ngx-translate-extract [options]
Options:
-d, --dir [DIR] Directory path you would like to extract strings from (Default is current directory)
-o, --output [DIR] Directory path you would like to save extracted
strings (Default is current directory/template.json)
-f, --format [VALUE] Output format. VALUE must be either
[json|namespaced-json|pot] (Default is json)
-r, --replace BOOLEAN Replace the contents of output file if it exists
(Merges by default)
-s, --sort BOOLEAN Sort translations in the output file in alphabetical
order
-c, --clean BOOLEAN Remove obsolete strings when merging
-e, --experimental BOOLEAN Use experimental AST Service Parser
-h, --help Display help and usage details
```
--version, -v Show version number [boolean]
--help, -h Show help [boolean]
--input, -i Paths you would like to extract strings from. You can use path
expansion, glob patterns and multiple paths
[array] [default: "/Users/kim/ionic/ngx-translate-extract"]
--patterns, -p Extract strings from the following file patterns
[array] [default: ["/**/*.html","/**/*.ts"]]
--output, -o Paths where you would like to save extracted strings. You can
use path expansion, glob patterns and multiple paths
[array] [required]
--format, -f Output format
[string] [choices: "json", "namespaced-json", "pot"] [default: "json"]
--replace, -r Replace the contents of output file if it exists (Merges by
default) [boolean] [default: false]
--sort, -s Sort strings in alphabetical order when saving
[boolean] [default: false]
--clean, -c Remove obsolete strings when merging[boolean] [default: false]

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