HELP to Translate

[milesibastos]

Hi, congratulations for the great job!
I'm thinking about translate to pt-BR but I'm not sure the best approach to do it.
Maybe convert it to GitBook would be an option to help extract the markdown from the code an translate it...
I would like to hear you about it.

[dabbott]

Hi! Translations would be very helpful!

I think we need the ability to switch back and forth between markdown, React, and other JS code, so I don't think GitBook will work. (although I'm not sure - I haven't used GitBook)

I would probably create a separate directory, e.g. Pages/pt-BR, with the translated pages in that directory. We would move existing pages to Pages/en-US. Then depending on the user's language setting, we could load from the translated directory. (We would do that here: https://github.com/dabbott/react-native-express/blob/master/src/pages/createProxyComponent.js#L11)

So the components would be entirely separate, loaded on demand. This gives us a lot of flexibility. Any common code between languages (e.g. the examples, if there are no comments to translate) could then be pulled out into a separate shared directory.

[francescjimenez]

Hi! It's not complicated:
https://toolchain.gitbook.com/languages.html

I could help the translation to Spanish

[josenaves]

@dabbott I can also help you to translate to pt-BR. Can I just fork this repo and do the translation?
Or are we going through something more sophisticated scheme ?

[userid451]

Hey, @dabbott I would also like to help in translating your awesome react native blog/tutorial to Arabic. Maybe more insight in the scheme like @josenaves stated will be a great head start in the right direction?

[josenaves]

@dabbott we want to translate the document. Can I make a fork and just translate it ?

[userid451]

@josenaves How are you planning to translate? any tools(gitbook) or approaches you're going to follow? Maybe we can discuss it here and whoever wants to translate will follow whatever guide we come with

[josenaves]

@lowkeypapi In fact, I don't think I'd use Gitbook (see #23 (comment)).

What I'm intend to do is just create a fork and start coding. Then @dabbott could relocate the pt-BR version into a new directory and make the adjustments in the main English page.

[userid451]

@josenaves Sounds like a plan. Let the games begin

[dabbott]

👍 sounds great, I like the fork plan. I can move the files around whenever you’re ready.

[josenaves]

Awesome !

I've just translated the introduction (https://github.com/josenaves/react-native-express/blob/intro/src/pages/Introduction.js)

Quick question for you @dabbott :

Do you think I should translate the code (examples) also ?

[dabbott]

Hmmm, I don’t really know. I don’t have a strong opinion either way - whatever you want to do is good. I’m sort of under the impression that most code is in English even if the tutorial is in another language.

[josenaves]

Yes, @dabbott ! I feel the same about using English in code. But I cannot tell just by myself.

Well, I'll keep the code in English for while.

[cnscorpions]

Hey, you guys, I'd like to fork it and translate from English to Chinese :)

[dabbott]

That'd be awesome!

[cnscorpions]

@dabbott Translation to Chinese is in progress here. Please add it in readme of this repo. 😆 thanks

[dabbott]

Wow, awesome work! I added it to the README.

Whenever you think it's far enough along I'll also add a link from the index page of the website.

At some point I want to update the website to serve multiple translations, although I'm not sure I'll have time this month

[cnscorpions]

@dabbott got it. Thanks

[fegvilela]

What's the pt-BR translation status? Is it complete?