Introduction

The project's goal is to faciliate the work with translations held in Google spreadsheet.

Brief history

• The original idea is from localize-with-spreadsheet package
• We adopted it and made a package “fork” ackee-localize-spreadsheet-sdk used by all 3 platforms (iOS, Android, Web)
• As the time went, other platforms (iOS, Android) abandoned the package and the Web platform remained as the only one using it
• Because of several reasons, the tool was reworked into the next generation version and first released in September 2020 (before Google stopped support for unauthenticated access to its Sheets API, which was on of the resons) 🚀

Getting started

Install lokse CLI in your project

yarn add -D lokse

create config

yarn lokse init

and fetch dependencies

yarn update

The name meaning

You’re maybe curious what the name means. Some people can pronounce it as Lokše which is a name for Slovak potato flatbread.
Maybe it was an inspiration. But the truth is, it’s a little pun. The name has evolved by abbreaviating the term localization sheet and transcripting Czech pronounciation:

Localization Sheet ➡ LocShe ➡ LokShe (“c” is pronounced as “k” in Czech) ➡ LokŠe (“sh” is pronounced as “š”) ➡ Lokse 🤓