No Versioning

You can use without versioning - just using the default latest set of resources. For smaller projects with continues deployment or no deployment process at all this can be a suitable solution.

"Rolling" Versioning

Most bigger projects will do a versioning divided into stages like:

development (latest) → staging → production

Everytime you want to deploy to next stage you can copy the resources eg. from latest to staging by creating a new version (and retype staging for new version name).

Semantic Versioning

Semantic Versioning can be useful if you deploy an application in different versions and you got no control over the users upgrading (eg. iOS Applications,…).

1.0.0 → patch (bugfix) → 1.0.1 1.0.1 → minor (feature) → 1.1.0 1.1.0 → major (breaking) → 2.0.0

When deploying - just create a new version based on your lastest version and update your production code to use that new version.

development → use latest published 1.0.0 → use 1.0.0 published 1.1.0 → use 1.1.0 published 1.1.1 → keep using 1.1.0 if no changes

Most time you won't need to create a new version when doing bugfix.

Merging Versions

To make it simple lets say we got two versions:

• latest -> is the current WIP / development version

• production -> is the current production version

There are two options to keep versions in sync:

a) “OVERWRITE WITH DATA FROM”

When going to production version with the current state go to the versions menu and choose “OVERWRITE WITH DATA FROM” and choose the latest version. All content of production version will be overwritten with the content of latest version.

b) “COPY TO”

Choose “COPY TO” on latest version and choose production version. Everything that has a different value in latest version or does not exist in production version gets copied over to production version. You will see what changes before you can choose to save or discard. The changes cause modification costs.

Update your code

Update your locizify script to include targeted version:

<script id="locizify" version="staging" ...
  src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]^4.2.0" />

Update i18next with locize backend:

i18next.init({
  // ...
  backend: {
    referenceLng: '{{referenceLanguage}}',
    apiKey: '{{apiKey}}',
    version: 'staging',
    projectId: '{{project_Id}}'
  }
});