microtranslate

Why?

microtranslate was created out of a need to provide localised strings to React components, although it is is not tied to the React ecosystem. It is an Event-emitting ES2015 class that is designed to be the "single source of truth" for the current display language of the React components that are subscribed to it.

Installation

For use with Node, install with Yarn or NPM:

$ yarn add microtranslate
$ npm install microtranslate

Usage

Instantiation

const i18n = new i18n(language);

Where language is a string containing an ISO 639-1 compliant language code. Ideally, i18n would be a singleton object.

Translations Object

When calling i18n.translator() to get a Translations object, you must supply an object that looks like this as an argument:

{
  "en": {
    "full": "Full",
    "crowded": "Crowded",
    "lively": "Lively",
    "space": "Space",
    "quiet": "Quiet",
    "empty": "Empty"
  },
  "nl": {
    "full": "Vol",
    "crowded": "Druk",
    "lively": "Gezellig",
    "space": "Plek",
    "quiet": "Rustig",
    "empty": "Leeg"
  }
}

Each language key should have an object assigned to it as a value that contains translation strings. The keys of this object should be identical for each language, but the values should be the text you would want to display for that language. For example, if i18n.language === 'en' and you call const t = i18n.translator(object), then t.get('full') === 'Full'. If i18n.language is modified to 'nl', then t.get('full') === 'Vol' instead.

Running the tests

Test are run using Jest. Clone the repo, run yarn install, and then yarn test.

Contributing

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Send a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

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