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Getting Started

Lunaria is an localization management toolchain for open-source projects, giving the tools necessary for both maintainers and contributors to build a seamless and efficient localization workflow.

Why Lunaria?

As a maintainer, managing localization efforts has never been easy, you’d always have to sacrifice the ownership of your content by moving into a localization platform or give up on reliably tracking your content for changes, until now. Lunaria solves both of these problems by enabling an entirely new workflow, powered by Git.

Every commit to select files is used to build a localization dashboard, giving each file its respective done/outdated/missing status. From the dashboard, maintainers get a detailed overview of their project’s localization status while contributors receive all the information they need to efficiently help, including links to the missing files and a list of commits that need to be added to the outdated content.

Quick Start

Add to your project

You can add Lunaria in your existing project by installing @lunariajs/core in your project’s dependencies using your preferred package manager:

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npm install @lunariajs/core

Then, you can run lunaria init to setup Lunaria, prompting you with a few questions and automatically filling your answers in a new lunaria.config.json file:

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npx lunaria init

Depending of your project’s structure and if you run lunaria sync during the initialization successfully, you might have all the requirements to build your first localization dashboard.

In case any of the fields repository, defaultLocale, locales, or files is missing in your lunaria.config.json, visit the Configuration Reference guide to set it up and then follow the instructions below.

Build your first dashboard

To build your localization dashboard, you can run the lunaria:build script added by lunaria init:

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npm run lunaria:build

By default, the localization dashboard will be built to an index.html file in the ./dist/lunaria/ directory. This file can then be deployed to the hosting platform of your choice and shared across your contributors.

See it in your browser

After building your dashboard, you should be able to run lunaria:preview to open a new preview server on http://localhost:3000/.

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npm run lunaria:preview

Next Steps

Hooray! Your project’s localization is now fully tracked by Lunaria! 🌛

Lunaria comes with several features you can explore to make it suit your project best. Here are a few pages you can read next, in any order, to learn more about it:

Dashboard Customization Learn how to make your dashboard unique, with your own styles, structure, and more.
Tracking Learn how tracking works and how to track content in Lunaria.