polycli init

Initialise a PolyCLI configuration file in your project root.

Usage

bash

npx @polycli/cli init

Runs an interactive prompt and writes a buildtranslator.json file in the current working directory. Safe to re-run — re-running updates the config without affecting existing lockfiles or translated output files.

Interactive prompts

Prompt	Default	Config field
Source language (e.g. "en" or "it")	it	sourceLanguage
Target languages, comma-separated	en,es	targetLanguages
JSON locales folder path	./locales	localesPath
Translate Markdown files? (y/N)	N	—
Markdown files folder path	./docs	markdownPath (optional)

Output

buildtranslator.json

{
  "sourceLanguage": "en",
  "targetLanguages": ["it", "es", "fr"],
  "localesPath": "./locales",
  "markdownPath": "./docs"
}

The markdownPath field is only written when you answer y to the Markdown prompt. See the buildtranslator.json reference for a full description of each field.

You can edit buildtranslator.json manually at any time. Re-running npx @polycli/cli init will overwrite it, so make sure your changes are committed first.