How I Extracted 3,400 Hardcoded Strings for i18n With Claude Code
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TL;DR I had a React app with roughly 3,400 hardcoded English strings scattered across 600+ components, and a mandate to ship a second language. Regex codemods handled maybe 60% of it and quietly mangled the rest, so I split the job: a deterministic AST codemod for the mechanical part, and Claude Co…
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- 2026-08-25 14:32 · DEV Community — AI
How I Extracted 3,400 Hardcoded Strings for i18n With Claude Code