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Been experimenting with localization workflows in React apps recently and noticed the pain points change a lot as apps grow.

Early on, simple JSON files + i18next work fine.

But later I started running into things like:

• regex extraction breaking on edge cases
• translation files becoming huge
• missing translations slipping into production
• unnecessary loading of entire locale bundles

Ended up experimenting with:

• AST-based extraction
• namespace splitting
• lazy loading + caching
• dry-run validation before generating translations

Curious how others are approaching this problem in larger apps.

Also wrote a deeper breakdown of the architecture/tradeoffs while building it:
https://medium.com/@parthgupta20052005/building-an-ai-powered-localization-pipeline-for-react-applications-4b8e5726b84a