translations_cleaner 0.0.1

Package to remove unused keys in arb files, across all translations

translations_cleaner

Dart package to search and delete unused translations from .arb files, for all languages, all in one go.

NOTE : This package has been developed keeping flutter_localizations package in mind, which uses .arb files for all translations.

Usage

# Add translations_cleaner as a dev dependency
dart pub add --dev translations_cleaner

# Run the command to clean all the translations
flutter pub run translations_cleaner

Why 🤔

Translations can be a very time taking process when the app starts to scale and there are a lot many translations. Hence it is a good practice to clean the translations if it is not being used. Checking for unused translations is tedious, hence this package.

How 🤖

• translations_cleaner looks for all the .arb files located in the directory, and fetches all the translations, from all the languages.
• Then it looks for all the .dart files.
• All the translation terms are looked for in these dart files
• The translations not found in the dart files are removed from the corresponding .arb files, including any attributes as well

Limitations 😔

• This package currently works only for l10n achieved via flutter_localizations, which uses .arb files.
• There are other l10n packages which use .json and .yaml for saving translations. These are not supported currently