Weblate internals¶
Note
This chapter will give you basic overview of Weblate internals.
Weblate derives most of its code structure from, and is based on Django.
Directory structure¶
Quick overview of directory structure of Weblate main repository:
docs
Source code for this documentation, which can be built using Sphinx.
dev-docker
Docker code to run development server, see Running Weblate locally in Docker.
weblate
Source code of Weblate as a Django application, see Weblate internals.
weblate/static
Client files (CSS, Javascript and images), see Weblate frontend.
Modules¶
Weblate consists of several Django applications (some optional, see Optional Weblate modules):
accounts
User account, profiles and notifications.
addons
Add-ons to tweak Weblate behavior, see Add-ons.
api
API based on Django REST framework.
auth
Authentication and permissions.
billing
The optional Billing module.
checks
Translation string Quality checks module.
fonts
Font rendering checks module.
formats
File format abstraction layer based on translate-toolkit.
gitexport
The optional Git exporter module.
lang
Module defining language and plural models.
legal
The optional Legal module.
machinery
Integration of machine translation services.
memory
Built-in translation memory, see Translation Memory.
screenshots
Screenshots management and OCR module.
trans
Main module handling translations.
utils
Various helper utilities.
vcs
Version control system abstraction.
wladmin
Django admin interface customization.