The commands

Everything is console-only. The service provider registers nothing at all unless runningInConsole(), so there is no code from this package in a web request — which is the incumbent's open question #445, "How can I use this lib in production environment?"

translations:lint#

php artisan translations:lint {locales?*}
    --source=en           # what the others are translations of
    --only=...            # missing,unused,placeholder,plural,empty,same
    --except=...
    --path=app --path=resources
    --lang=lang
    --json

Exits 1 when it finds anything, so it fails a build.

With no locales it checks every one it finds beside the source. --json prints an array of {reason, locale, key, detail, file, line} for your own tooling.

translations:sync#

php artisan translations:sync ar ur
    --source=en
    --copy                # fill with the source text rather than blank
    --lang=lang
    --dry

Adds every key the source locale has, plus every key the code asks for. Never overwrites a value that exists.

translations:export#

php artisan translations:export strings.csv {locales?*}
    --source=en
    --missing             # only rows somebody has not done
    --lang=lang

translations:import#

php artisan translations:import strings.csv
    --lang=lang
    --force               # let the spreadsheet win where both changed
    --dry

What it writes#

Sorted keys, nested arrays restored, short array syntax, real indentation:

<?php

return [
    'nested' => [
        'deep' => [
            'key' => 'A deeply nested string',
        ],
    ],
    'welcome' => 'Welcome, :name',
];

Sorting matters more than it looks: two translators working on different strings otherwise produce a conflict on every line.

A key with no dot in it, or one with a space, goes to lang/{locale}.json — which is how Laravel itself tells the two kinds apart.

Nested arrays survive the round trip, which is the incumbent's #456. Export and import both go through one flattener, and there is a test that takes a three-level array out and back.