Integration with SvelteKit Preprocessor

[vhscom]

Thanks for your hard work on this project, Ivan. The thought and consideration you put in is clear from the comprehensive README and your Svelte Summit talk a few hours ago. I found this project after clicking through from your helpful comments in sveltejs/kit#553 and wanted to know if you have any plans of integrating it into the Svelte preprocessing pipeline similar to https://github.com/pngwn/mdsvex.

It seems that may be the case based on #89 but I wasn't sure if you had something more general in mind given this project is targeted at a number of different use cases (e.g. Vue, React, etc.). Knowing this will help me determine if I should invest more time with this project or look at more Svelte-specific solutions such as https://svelte-intl-precompile.com/.

Thanks again for your great work!

[ivanhofer]

Hi @vhscom thanks for opening this discussion.
I really want to improve the library and optimize the generated output. You already have referenced the correct discussion #89.
This would probably mean to come up with a general solution that parses the AST and optimizes the translation files. This solution then can be used inside a rollup or vite plugin and probably also in a Svelte preprocessor. Ideally this would work with all frameworks.

Unfortunately I currently don't have the available ressources to dive into this topic. Maybe someone could help me out or it has to wait for the secont half of this year.
Since typesafe-i18n already produces a small footprint, I (personally) don't see this as a critical must-have feature.

If the preprocessing thing is something you really need and you can't wait, then you probably should use svelte-intl-precompile. You have to choose between saving a few bytes in the bundle or a having a great developer-experience (personal opinion). typesafe-i18n offers something no other i18n solution currently provides: it's strong typesafety.