Translating strings in package.json

[ebennett48375]

In a VSCode extension, is there any way to use typesafe-i18n to translate strings in package.json? I'm thinking of the text for commands, configuration settings and the like.

[ivanhofer]

You would need to write a script that generates the package.json file for you. Something like:

const pck = {
   scripts: {
      test: `ECHO "${LL.hello()}"`
   }
}

writeFile(resolve('./package.json'), JSON.stringify(pck, undefined, 3))

Does this work for you?

[ebennett48375]

Thank you so much for your speedy reply. I am impressed.

It turns out, however, that VSCode takes care of the issue for you. If you have a package.nls.json, and, say, package.nls.ja.json, and you use strings like %extension.somekey% in package.json, VSCode automagically does the translation using the json files.