How to set the messages.xlf output location when running Angular i18n?

Question

I'm using angular's i18n tools and have moved the messages.xlf output to a different folder than the default location (a new directory: \app\locale), as suggested.

When I rerun

>npm run i18n

even in the newly added app/locale directory, the messages.xlf file is output to the default location.

How can I specify where the output messages.xlf file is output to prevent having to move it around each time I regenerate it?

Answer 1

You can add a new option to your tsconfig.json to tell the angular compiler where to output the file.

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    //your normal options...
  },
  "angularCompilerOptions": {
    "genDir": "./app/locale"
  }
}

When you execute the i18n program make sure to include the tsconfig.json location.

node_modules\.bin>ng-xi18n -p ../../src/tsconfig.json