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When using the .json option for translations, the json-file is read and parsed for every request. This package provides an artisan command to cache the parsed data as a php-file, pretty much the same was as routes and configs can be cached. This gives a performance boost since no JSON-parsing has to be done and the opcache can be used. The actual performance boost depends on the size of the translation file and the disk speed, see below.

Installation

composer require krisell/laravel-translation-json-cache

The package is auto-registered.

Usage

To cache all translation JSON-files (in resources/lang), run the following artisan command:

php artisan translation-json:cache

If your json-files change, you need to run the command again for the changes to take effect.

You may also clear the cached files using the following command

php artisan translation-json:clear

Run translation-json:cache during deployment in the same way you run route:cache and config:cache.

The cached files are stored in the bootstrap/cache directory and are named translation-{$locale}.php.

Performance boost

On a Macbook Pro 2018 (2.6 GHz i7), using Laravel Valet, and having a JSON translation file of 1500 strings (real strings of varying length), the first call to __("A") during a request takes about 1.2 ms. Enabling this package and the same call takes 0.08 ms, i.e. the actual performance boost is in the order of 1 ms, which is substantial considering that a simple full request could be as fast as 10 ms.

I have been using this solution in production for a while (1500 strings for each language) and I have to say the performance boost is not really noticable there (comparing CPU graphs, which of course depends on a lot of other changes as well). The difference may be smaller since our server setup uses docker and an all in-memory disk. Please feel free to contribute with additional measurements under other circumstances or with other sizes of the JSON files.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

Future work

I realize the JSON-option may not be the preferred one, and that most people already use php-files for storing their translation data hierachically. In that case, a similar approach could still possibly save time on parsing and traversal, but this is outside the scope of this package. Feel free to investigate this idéa further in a new package!