Is there any way to use .po files instead of .json files for translations?

[juagarc4]

Problem/Motivation:

Many translations are done by external translators that usually work with POEditors to create the translations and save them into the corresponding .po files. .po extension is very popular and useful to manipulate translation files.

Desired solution:
I would like to have the possibility to use .po files in the same way I'm using json files.

Additional context
I've tried to use the module "https://github.com/openculinary/i18next-gettext-loader" but this plugin seems to be more like a node tool to convert po files to json files than a plugin to add on the fly .po files compatibility.

Thanks in advance.
Regards

[aralroca]

Yes. You need a webpack loader to load .po files. Then, instead of locales/en/common.json you can use locales/en/common.po, or using a different structure defining the loadLocalesFrom config prop.