Inlang removed the entire directory. Please add a condition to prevent this during initialization.

[las-nish]

I’m using a Vite + React app, and I added the following config:

import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import { paraglideVitePlugin } from "@inlang/paraglide-js";

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    paraglideVitePlugin({
      project: "./project.inlang",
      outdir: "./", // <--
    }),
  ],
});

I specifically set outdir to './' because Inlang creates the messages inside that directory. I wanted it to generate files inside the root folder, like root/messages, but when I ran the project, the entire directory was wiped out and replaced with inlang-related files.

Caution

I ended up losing three days of work, around 3,000 lines of code.

I really like this library, but I strongly suggest adding a safety check or warning for this scenario to prevent other developers from facing the same issue.