Moving translations to their own files creates a better separation of concerns. It’s possible to pass strings directly in the resources parameter in this file, but it’s preferable to separate your translations from your code. Now all that remains is passing the actual translations in the resources field. In this case, it would only be used if LanguageDetector failed to detect the browser language for some reason.ĮscapeValue is generally used for security reasons, but React already does this by default so you can remove the duplicate work by setting escapeValue: false. The fallbackLng field sets the default language to be used if no other language is provided. Setting debug: true will log issues with loading the translations to the console, which might be useful for debugging your i18next setup locally. If you don’t want this functionality, you can omit this line and the import statement for the LanguageDetector. use(LanguageDetector) will add the functionality of automatically detecting the browser language and setting it as the current language in the app. In this module, we simply import the necessary dependencies and then initialize the i18n parameters. You can name it i18n.js (or i18n.ts if you’re using TypeScript). It’s conventional to create a separate file for initializing your internationalization framework. So i18next actually uses i18n under the hood, but adds more functionality on top of it. The answer is pretty simple: i18n is the initial lightweight translation module that i18next was built on top of.
You will see a lot of i18n imports and mentions below and you might start wondering why everything is called i18n when the module you installed is called i18next.
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You can install all three using npm: npm install i18next react-i18next i18next-browser-languagedetector Difference between i18n and i18next (It’s literally one line of code.) However, this is completely optional and you don’t need it if you have a better way of determining your customer’s language of choice. This one will allow you to automatically detect the language preferences set in your customer’s browser and display your application in that language. On top of these, there’s also i18next-browser-languagedetector. It provides an additional hook and a React component that make translating your strings very straight forward. In order to make the use of i18next even easier for React/React Native, there’s another framework called react-i18next. So a lot of things in this article are transferable to technologies other than React. I18next is an internationalization framework for JavaScript that was built to work with any JavaScript application. Installing i18next and other dependencies This article will walk through the process of installing the necessary dependencies, adding support for multiple languages, detecting the default browser language of your customers and adding a button that will enable customers to manually change the language.
How long does it take? I got my React app (created with the typical create-react-app configuration) set up in less than an hour. Adding support for strings in multiple languages has been made really simple with i18next. Translating your website to different languages is a great way to expand your audience and make your content more accessible to people.
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