pmds (Palamedes)

Next-generation Lingui CLI with OXC-based extraction.

Installation

pnpm add -g pmds

Usage

Extract messages

# Extract messages from source files
pmds extract

# Watch mode
pmds extract --watch

# Remove obsolete messages
pmds extract --clean

# Custom config path
pmds extract --config ./lingui.config.ts

# Verbose output
pmds extract --verbose

Features

• ⚡ Fast: Uses OXC parser (~20-100x faster than Babel)
• 📦 Simple: No compile step needed (use .po loader instead)
• 👀 Watch mode: Re-extract on file changes
• 🧹 Clean mode: Remove obsolete messages

Configuration

Uses standard lingui.config.ts:

import type { LinguiConfig } from "@lingui/conf"

const config: LinguiConfig = {
  locales: ["en", "de", "es"],
  sourceLocale: "en",
  catalogs: [
    {
      path: "<rootDir>/src/locales/{locale}",
      include: ["src/**/*.{ts,tsx}"],
    },
  ],
}

export default config

Why "pmds"?

Short for Palamedes - the next generation of Lingui tooling.