From 1de4486711f853fdd2cb7752fea834fc5789cd90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cathy Sarisky <catsarisky@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 12:59:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] update gulpfile and dependencies for building i18n files

---
 gulpfile.js  | 15 +++++++++++++--
 package.json |  1 +
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 3a8f9a3543..61a3079519 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ const colorFunction = require('postcss-color-mod-function');
 const cssnano = require('cssnano');
 const easyimport = require('postcss-easy-import');
 
+// translations support
+const { mergeLocales } = require('@tryghost/theme-translations/build');
+
 const REPO = 'TryGhost/Casper';
 const REPO_READONLY = 'TryGhost/Casper';
 const CHANGELOG_PATH = path.join(process.cwd(), '.', 'changelog.md');
@@ -89,11 +92,19 @@ function zipper(done) {
     ], handleError(done));
 }
 
+function locales(done) {
+    mergeLocales({
+        local: './locales-local',
+        output: './locales'
+    })(done);
+}
+
 const cssWatcher = () => watch('assets/css/**', css);
 const jsWatcher = () => watch('assets/js/**', js);
 const hbsWatcher = () => watch(['*.hbs', 'partials/**/*.hbs'], hbs);
-const watcher = parallel(cssWatcher, jsWatcher, hbsWatcher);
-const build = series(css, js);
+const localesWatcher = () => watch('./locales-local/**/*.json', locales);
+const watcher = parallel(cssWatcher, jsWatcher, hbsWatcher, localesWatcher);
+const build = series(css, js, locales);
 
 exports.build = build;
 exports.zip = series(build, zipper);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0088fe5188..7e116319d5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
     "contributors": "https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper/graphs/contributors",
     "devDependencies": {
         "@tryghost/release-utils": "0.8.1",
+        "@tryghost/theme-translations": "^0.0.9",
         "autoprefixer": "10.4.24",
         "beeper": "2.1.0",
         "cssnano": "7.1.2",