This package provides a hatchling plugin (build hook) for Django projects that automatically compiles locale files when building the package.
In your projects pyproject.toml, make sure you are using the hatchling build system
and configure the hook.
For uv, add the following:
[tool.hatch.build.hooks.django-locales]
dependencies = ["hatch-django-locales>=0.1.5", "django"]
search-directories = ["src"]The search-directories option should be a list of directories to glob
for locale directories and is your project root by default.
Make sure that the .mo files are actually included in the wheels produced
by your build process. Hatchling ignores files mentioned in .gitignore by default,
which would include, but
uv builds wheels in a temporary directory
that does not contain the .gitignore file, so it still does work.
If it does not work for you,explicitly include the .mo files in your wheel
(see hatchling documentation for details on how to do this).