Babel plugin optimize i18n
Babel plugin that transforms this:
import { __, _x } from '@wordpress/i18n';
__( 'Hello' );
_x( 'World' );
to this:
import { __ as alias__, _x as alias_x } from '@wordpress/i18n';
const __ = alias__;
const _x = alias_x;
__( 'Hello' );
_x( 'World' );
Inspired by babel-plugin-optimize-react that does similar transforms for React imports.
The transform ensures that the __('Hello')
syntax remains intact in the output bundle (and even after minification if Terser uses the mangle.reserved
option) and can be extracted by WP i18n tools.