Hosted translation platforms bill monthly — from $7 entry plans to $149+ team tiers. Your locale files already live in git; they do not need a subscription, they need a gate. This kit is a zero-dependency QA gate for the JSON you already have: missing keys, broken placeholders and dropped brand terms, caught on every pull request. One payment of ฿990 — then it runs on every repo you own, forever.
Get the kit — ฿990Real output format, from the bundled 30-second demo — the demo locales carry seeded defects exactly like these.
One zip, no npm install, no account, no database. Two Node scripts (18+, zero dependencies), a CI workflow, a glossary starter, and the review docs that make the tool stick with a team.
Flat locales/en.json files or one folder per locale (i18next namespaces). Missing keys become errors, empty strings become warnings, orphan keys get flagged — with coverage % per language.
{{count}}, {date}, %s — a translator renames or drops a variable and the app crashes in production. Here the placeholder set must match the source exactly, or CI fails first.
Mark product names, legal forms and plan names as do-not-translate in the bundled glossary CSV. If a translation drops a protected term, the check says exactly which key and which term.
Export every locale into one CSV (UTF-8 BOM, opens clean in Excel and Google Sheets). Import merges reviewed cells back — and only fills keys that are still empty, so a stale spreadsheet can never clobber newer edits in git.
One command prints translated-% per locale; another generates a template for a new language with every source key set and ready for a translator. Machine-readable --json for badges and dashboards.
A drop-in GitHub Actions workflow that fails incomplete PRs, plus the docs that make it stick: a review workflow with roles and rules, and a pre-merge QA checklist for everything a script cannot see (layout, RTL, plurals).
Your strings never leave your machine. No vendor login, no cloud project, no telemetry — the scripts read and write the JSON files in your repo, and everything else is your own infrastructure. If your repo is private, your translations are private.
No new file format. The kit reads the nested JSON your framework already loads — i18next, next-intl, vue-i18n, svelte-i18n or hand-rolled catalogs. Your files stay the source of truth; the kit never rewrites a file it did not need to touch. (JSON only in v1 — .po, .yaml and .xliff are not parsed, and the kit does not translate anything by itself: humans or your own tooling write the words, the kit makes sure nothing ships without them.)
Priced like a tool, not a utility bill. A hosted TMS seat runs $7–$149+ per month, every month. This kit is ฿990 once — less than most single monthlies — and then it is yours: every repo, every project, no per-seat math when the team grows.
Three commands from zip to a team-wide gate.
Copy the two scripts into your repo and run the check against your locales directory. You get a per-language report — missing keys, broken placeholders, dropped terms, coverage % — in about a second.
Drop the included GitHub Actions workflow into .github/workflows/. PRs that ship incomplete or broken translations fail, with a JSON report attached. Fix the report, not production.
Export one spreadsheet per review round, hand it out, import the reviewed cells back. Only empty keys get filled, the check proves it, and the JSON diff lands in a normal pull request.
No subscription, no per-seat fee, no hosted dependency.
≈ US$27
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Honest context: hosted translation platforms charge roughly $7–$149+ per month for their entry-to-team tiers (public pricing pages, checked September 2026), and per-seat as you grow. That is the right trade for some teams. If your strings are JSON in git and you want the QA gate without the monthly bill, this kit is that trade reversed.
A single-team commercial license: one buyer (a person or one legal entity) uses the kit in unlimited private and public repos of their own — commercial or not — and may commit the scripts into those repos. Contractors working only for that team are covered. Redistributing or reselling the kit itself is not allowed; each team needs its own license.
No — deliberately. The kit finds gaps (missing keys, empty strings, broken placeholders, dropped brand terms) and moves words between JSON and CSV. The writing is done by humans or by whatever translation tooling you already use. That is why it costs once instead of billing per character forever.
Node 18 or newer — there is nothing else to install. Your locale files need to be JSON, either one file per locale (locales/en.json) or one folder per locale with namespace files (i18next-style). .po, .yaml, .xliff and .arb files are not parsed in v1.
Yes — every v1.x update (new checks, export/import improvements, CI recipe updates) is free. Re-download any time from your download page with the email and password from checkout. If a v2.0 ever ships, existing buyers get a clear upgrade path — never a surprise paywall.
If the kit does not fit how you work, email [email protected] within 14 days of purchase and you get a full refund — the zip is yours to keep or delete. One refund per purchase; we only ask for optional feedback.
Use the right tool for the job: large community localization with translation memory belongs in a hosted TMS, and their free tiers are real. This kit is for the team whose strings are JSON files in git and who want three things those tools do not do: run self-hosted with zero dependencies, fail the PR before the bug ships, and cost once instead of monthly.
฿990 one-time · ≈ US$27 · free updates v1.x · instant download
Get I18n Mgmt Kit — ฿990