can you explain a bit more why it was failing?

Can you explain a bit more why it was failing?

It was failing because the manage.py file, it takes the settings defined in the mindmap/settings/test.py file, but this file did not have statici18n added to INSTALLED_APPS, and neither the necessary configuration:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    "statici18n" #  This allows to use the command
)

# statici18n
# https://django-statici18n.readthedocs.io/en/latest/settings.html

LANGUAGES = [
    ('en', 'English - Source Language'),
    ('es_419', 'Spanish (Latin America)'),
    ('es_ES', 'Spanish (Spain)'),
]

STATICI18N_DOMAIN = 'text'
STATICI18N_NAMESPACE = 'MindMapI18N'
STATICI18N_PACKAGES = (
    'mindmap',
)
STATICI18N_ROOT = 'mindmap/public/js'
STATICI18N_OUTPUT_DIR = 'translations'

Finally, the compile_translations command was updated to generate the JS files with the translations correctly:

compile_translations: 
    ...
    python manage.py compilejsi18n --namespace MindMapI18N --output $(JS_TARGET)

Hi @johnvente, the text.js files are automatically generated by the compile_translations command, so we would have to update those files every time the command is executed.

Hi @johnvente, the text.js files are automatically generated by the compile_translations command, so we would have to update those files every time the command is executed.

Hi @BryanttV in that case doesn't worth to update the files, it's ok for me