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abhisiv

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    Comment #20642143

    Wow, that's very interesting--what a time consuming experience. You can imagine that this method would not be sustainable for larger codebases. Let me know at abhi@langapi.co next …

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    Comment #20642114

    For frameworks with gettext we integrate with it! Gettext will extract the phrases into a .po file but these need to be translated. Running 'langapi push' will push out all the .po…

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    Comment #20639930

    We analyzed fluent when we built the product and found that it didn't offer much more than the international standard ICU. Our platforms have full support for ICU syntax including …

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    Comment #20632901

    Cool stuff! I would love to hear more about it. Please ping me at abhi@langapi.co if you want to talk.

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    Comment #20631757

    Our framework automatically checks the browser language preferences. Change your browser language preference to Spanish and refresh to see the translations. We'll also add the flag…

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    Comment #20631488

    Our site is internationalized with our product and we have Spanish translations. If you change your Chrome language setting to Spanish you can see it. We'll plan to add a manual la…

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    Comment #20629695

    Good question, we let you provide as much context to the translators as you want (description, tone, and screenshots). If you still don't like the translation, you can comment and …

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    Comment #20629438

    Our tools send the strings to a dashboard. At this point, you can have your own translators add translations and pull them back in. We have developed flows which make it easy for y…

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    Comment #20628997

    Hey! Requesting and receiving translations work with any language including left script (right-to-left) languages. In the future, we want to solve the page layout problem for RTL l…

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    Comment #20628838

    Developers with large code bases have complained that it takes weeks to manually wrap all their strings. We have an experimental tool for ReactJS which can wrap all the front facin…

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    Comment #20628448

    Thanks :)

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    Comment #20628441

    1. We support both client and server side frameworks (Django, python, NodeJS). We're adding support for more as fast as we can including Java and Rails. 2. The 'translations.json' …

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    Comment #20628308

    That's great feedback -- we're still working on the best way to do pricing. A phrase is any text wrapped with our 'tr' function. We use phrases for pricing currently because it's a…

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    Comment #20628293

    Great point, we would like to add support for common gotchas. Right now we abstract all plural logic away from the user by automatically requesting all plural forms of a phrase for…

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    Comment #20628168

    We're actually building out support for Java right now and would be more than happy to explore other server-side languages you're interested in. If you have more specific requests …

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