Reloading translations after a change

[Christoph Müller]

It would be very nice to detect changes in the translation files.

Via translations configuration you can only set an object containing translations.
Every time a translation changes, the eleventy server needs to be restarted when using watch.

I worked around this issue by defining a Proxy:

    eleventyConfig.addPlugin(i18n, {
        translations: new Proxy({}, {
            get(target, prop, receiver) {
                let data = require('./src/_data/i18n');
                return data[prop];
            }
        }),
    });

Eleventy detects the change by itself and reloads the page which then fetches translation for EVERY i18n filter call.
This works for small setups as a very dirty workaround.

So what I was thinking of was is adding a eleventy.before hook to the plugin which then resets the registered translations (or re-initalizes the filter) if one of the translations files changed (defined via a new translationFiles property).

Do you think that this makes sense?

[Adam Duncan]

Hey @sguter90, thanks for raising and proposing a workaround.

Is this a similar issue to what PR #18 was looking to solve? (A little additional context there from the time)

Is it something that folks can handle via 11ty's built-in addWatchTarget API? IMO it might make more sense to try to solve that on the framework side as opposed to here on the plugin side.

Hope that helps 👍

[Christoph Müller]

Hi @adamduncan ,
yes, #18 would provide a way to solve my problem 👍
I'm fetching translations from a repote API and write them to a data file with a parallel running process.
Everytime the translation file changes a rebuild is triggered by eleventy.

As far as I know addWatchTarget also just triggers the build logic but not restarts the watch process where plugins are added. (which re-imports js dependencies)

Because you linked 11ty/eleventy#1312 I've checked if eleventy version v2.0.2-alpha.1 solves this issue.
But this doesn't seem to change anything regarding require statements. (or I'm missing something)