Pick your stack

Find your framework below and use its init command in place of the one in the Quickstart. Each file layout is the pattern init writes when it finds no locale files; when your files already exist, init detects where they are, and --path sets the pattern yourself. Every format's full behavior is on Formats. Some stacks also have a step-by-step quickstart, linked at the end of their section.

React with i18nextCopy Anchor Link

For i18next, react-i18next, and next-i18next projects.

• Format: i18next-json
• Files: locales/{locale}.json

npx @verbatra/cli init --format i18next-json --provider gemini --yes

Details: The four JSON formats.

Step by step: React quickstart.

Next.js with next-intlCopy Anchor Link

For next-intl message files, whose values are ICU messages.

• Format: next-intl-json
• Files: messages/{locale}.json

npx @verbatra/cli init --format next-intl-json --provider gemini --yes

Details: The four JSON formats.

Step by step: Next.js quickstart.

Vue and Nuxt with vue-i18nCopy Anchor Link

For vue-i18n, including Nuxt I18n, with single-brace placeholders and pipe plurals.

• Format: vue-i18n-json
• Files: src/locales/{locale}.json

npx @verbatra/cli init --format vue-i18n-json --provider gemini --yes

Details: The four JSON formats.

Step by step: Vue quickstart.

Angular with ngx-translateCopy Anchor Link

For ngx-translate JSON, flat or nested.

• Format: ngx-translate-json
• Files: src/assets/i18n/{locale}.json

npx @verbatra/cli init --format ngx-translate-json --provider gemini --yes

Details: The four JSON formats.

Step by step: Angular quickstart.

FlutterCopy Anchor Link

For Flutter's Application Resource Bundles. init also sets localeStyle: "posix", so pt-BR is written as app_pt_BR.arb, the name flutter gen-l10n reads.

• Format: arb
• Files: lib/l10n/app_{locale}.arb

npx @verbatra/cli init --format arb --provider gemini --yes

Details: ARB.

Step by step: Flutter quickstart.

AndroidCopy Anchor Link

For strings.xml resources. init also sets localeStyle: "android", so the token expands to values for the source and values-de for German.

• Format: android-xml
• Files: app/src/main/res/{locale}/strings.xml

npx @verbatra/cli init --format android-xml --provider gemini --yes

Details: Android strings.xml.

iOS and macOSCopy Anchor Link

Two formats, depending on how your project stores its strings. For .strings files with their .stringsdict plurals:

• Format: apple-strings
• Files: {locale}.lproj/Localizable.strings

npx @verbatra/cli init --format apple-strings --provider gemini --yes

For an Xcode String Catalog, one file that holds every locale. Create the catalog in Xcode first: verbatra writes into it but never creates it.

• Format: apple-xcstrings
• Files: {locale}Localizable.xcstrings

The pattern needs the {locale} token, but for a String Catalog it expands to nothing: every locale reads and writes the one file Localizable.xcstrings.

npx @verbatra/cli init --format apple-xcstrings --provider gemini --yes

Details: Apple .strings and Xcode String Catalogs.

gettextCopy Anchor Link

For .po catalogs and their .pot templates, as used by Python, PHP, and C projects. init also sets localeStyle: "posix", so pt-BR is written as pt_BR.

• Format: gettext-po
• Files: locales/{locale}/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po

npx @verbatra/cli init --format gettext-po --provider gemini --yes

Details: gettext .po/.pot.

Java and SpringCopy Anchor Link

For .properties message bundles. init also sets localeStyle: "posix", so pt-BR is written as messages_pt_BR.properties.

• Format: properties
• Files: src/main/resources/messages_{locale}.properties

npx @verbatra/cli init --format properties --provider gemini --yes

Details: Properties.

.NETCopy Anchor Link

For .resx resource files. Images, icons, and designer entries are left untouched.

• Format: resx
• Files: Resources/Strings.{locale}.resx

npx @verbatra/cli init --format resx --provider gemini --yes

Details: .NET .resx.

YAMLCopy Anchor Link

For nested YAML locale files with i18next-style {{double-brace}} placeholders.

• Format: yaml
• Files: locales/{locale}.yml

npx @verbatra/cli init --format yaml --provider gemini --yes

Details: YAML.

XLIFFCopy Anchor Link

For XLIFF 1.2 and 2.0 documents from Angular's ng extract-i18n, a CAT tool, or an agency.

• Format: xliff
• Files: locales/{locale}.xlf

npx @verbatra/cli init --format xliff --provider gemini --yes

Details: XLIFF.

INICopy Anchor Link

For classic INI files, with one level of [section] headers.

• Format: ini
• Files: locales/{locale}.ini

npx @verbatra/cli init --format ini --provider gemini --yes

Details: INI.

Something elseCopy Anchor Link

A format verbatra does not ship can still be translated through an adapter you write yourself. See Write a custom format adapter.