Repository
https://github.com/nodejs/i18n
Project Details
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser. It achieves low latency and high throughput by taking a “non-blocking” approach to serving requests. Basically, Node.js can open, create, read, write, close and delete files on a server, using JavaScript. It also includes tasks that will be executed on certain servers.
Alright, that was the technical definition of the project. Now let me explain it to you in simpler words:
Let’s say you want to build a software to keep record of your company’s earnings. A feature where viewing your monthly earnings is updated live can be very useful. In that way, if one of your sales employees is busy, another employee could still be seeing the updates live, without reloading the page.
This has been done before using other technologies. However, Node.js is way faster and better. So, yes it’s pretty awesome for developers.
Contribution Specifications
Being such an important project, Node.js is being translated to several languages so it can reach many people around the world. As it for me, I am contributing to the Spanish language.
Translation Overview
This is my first contribution to the project and I started with the folder dns.md. The folder explains the functionalities of the DNS module, such functions belong to two different categories. Those that use the underlying operating system facilities to perform
name resolution, and those that connect to an actual DNS server to perform name resolution.
Since the text is related to computer science it is very important to do some research before translating a word if you are not sure about its meaning, which is why I learned a few things while working on this translation, like for example:
DNS means Domain Name System and it is a database that contains all the domain names in the internet and their corresponding IP addresses.
Some words were left untranslated on purpose, otherwise, their true meaning would be lost in the translation.
Languages
Source Language: English
Translated Language: Spanish
I have worked as a translator for the project Da Vinci Polyglot and I am currently working as a language moderator for the Utopian + Da Vinci translation category.
And of course, I am part of the Spanish team!
Word Count
I translated 1031 words on this contribution.
Proof of Authorship
