Make "extract" & "compile" publicly available API functions

[ervasive]

Which package?
@formatjs/cli

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I think it would be great to be able to run translations extraction and compilation programmatically through Node API in addition to CLI interface

[longlho]

I think the extraction API is there but not documented. I'll take a look!

[longlho]

Can you also provide your use case?

[ervasive]

I think this can be generally helpful, but in my particular case, I'm working on a gatsby plugin for multilingual support with the idea for it to automatically handle message extraction and later compiling optimized translations resource(s) on production builds.

[ervasive]

I think the extraction API is there but not documented. I'll take a look!

Yeah, it is. But as you said it is not documented, therefore it does not feel like the recommended way of using it.

Thank you

[longlho]

Yeah i do export them for testing so I'll document it

[ervasive]

Yeah i do export them for testing so I'll document it

It seems like the "compile" function is tied to the CLI usecase and does not return the compiled output

[longlho]

@formatjs/cli@2.5 should have this

[bertho-zero]

@longlho can compileFolder also be exported?

[longlho]

yeah can you submit a different GH issue?