Extract translatable strings from Handlebars templates.

This script is called this way:

$ node handlebars-xgettext path/to/handlebars/templates/ translation.pot

This will find all the files located in path/to/handlebars/templates/, extract translatable strings and create a file called translation.pot.

The POT file is a catalog model used to update PO files.

Translatable strings should be marked up like this:

<button class="btn btn-large">{{gettext "Login"}}</button>

The gettext helper can also be aliased to _:

<button class="btn btn-large">{{_ "Login"}}</button>

It is up to you to define the i18n logic. But you should probably do something like this in your JavaScript:

Handlebars.registerHelper('_', function(key) {
  return i18n.gettext(key);
});

Jed is a very convenient library to manage internationalization from JavaScript in the gettext way.

handlebars-xgettext is at a very early stage of development and may not meet your requirements at the moment.

A lot of common features of xgettext are not yet implemented.

But we plan on improving stability and functionalities (see @todo annotations). As such, pull requests and issues are greatly appreciated ;-)

handlebars-xgettext development was founded by Dijiwan. We use it extensively on production.

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