Should langcodes in webpack config be hardcoded?

[miloskroulik]

Looking at

digital-climate-strike/webpack.common.js

Line 144 in 096c88a

language: 'de',

I see that there is repeated block of code, with the only difference being the used langcode. Is this correct? We could have multiple languages in the future and it can become maintenance burden, if I understand the code correctly.

[dtoakley]

From @fviejobueno who did a bit of research into this:

I was today researching how to avoid this multiple declarations of the HtmlWebPackPlugin to get the translations. What i have found is the usage of yet another plugin, i18n-webpack-plugin, so this one would handle the translations and handlebars the expressions. The idea of how to configure it i found it here

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32515400/is-there-any-javascript-template-library-can-work-with-webpacks-i18n-plugin

[miloskroulik]

Hmm, I'm quite confused, probably because I'm no JS dev. Based on https://github.com/webpack-contrib/i18n-webpack-plugin i18n-webpack-plugin is deprecated (but with no replcement mentioned), but it's still documented in the webpack docs at https://webpack.js.org/plugins/i18n-webpack-plugin/ I guess that means we should try to use it. Thanks @fviejobueno for the research.