v4.0.0-alpha.2

What's Changed

Enhancements ✨

• new simplified parser

Breaking Changes

• removed the long deprecated <translate> component and v-translate directive
• removed disableHtmlEscaping option
• introduced parserOptions, removed jsExtractorOpts
• declare global types in vue instead of @vue/runtime-core (this seems to work with current dev toolings)
• flat output is now enabled by default

New Parser

I finally got around to replacing the parse5 based parser in favor of a simple, regex-based parser. It has not yet been extensively tested but for now seems to be more robust when dealing with some of the issues the community found.

• It can extract messages from non-js files
  • It can extract custom keywords but is otherwise not very flexible. I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible so it may not work for languages with non C-like syntax.
  • At this time, it will extract anything in the shape of $npgettext("foo", "bar", "bars"
  • It does pattern match and not fully parse files, this has some caveats:
    • It will extract messages from comments
    • It will ignore the context surrounding the message and extract even if it is syntactically invalid. One example: foo$gettext("bar"