Monorepo
If you're using lingui within a monorepo, you need to pass some extra options to lingui babel. { rootMode: "upward" } is required to lingui find the correct babel config.
{
 "catalogs": [{
   "path": "<rootDir>/locale/{locale}/messages",
   "include": ["<rootDir>"],
   "exclude": ["**/node_modules/**"]
 }],
 "extractBabelOptions": {
   "rootMode": "upward",
 },
 "format": "po",
 "locales": ["en"],
}
In summary, we'll have:
- 1x 
babel.config.jswithin root - 1x 
lingui.config.jswithin root - And n-times 
lingui.config.jsper package which extends/overrides from root