Laravel Json Translations

The Laravel Json Translations package offers a convenient way of providing all translations from the resources/lang directory via a route serving a javascript file as JSON object and automatically binds them to the window-object. This is useful when working with i18n packages in frontend-frameworks like Vue.js. All translations will be provided in the following format:

{
"en": {
    "auth": {
        "failed": "These credentials do not match our records.",
        "password": "The provided password is incorrect.",
        "throttle": "Too many login attempts. Please try again in :seconds seconds."
    }
}

Installation

The package can be installed via composer:

composer require aw-studio/laravel-json-translations

Usage

Register the route that will serve the translation file in routes/web.php via the availble helper which takes a filename and an array of all locales that should be included in the file as an parameter:

// routes/web.php

use AwStudio\LaravelJsonTranslations\Facades\JsonTranslations;

// this will serve https://your-app.com/my-translations.js
JsonTranslations::javascript('my-translations', ['en', 'de']);

You can now include a local javascript using the <script> tag or simply use the blade-directive in a view where you need to provide the json translations:

// will render to <script src="/my-translations.js"></script>
@translations('my-translations')

If you want to receive raw json e.g. in an api, this can be achieved using the json method via the JsonTranslations facade:

use AwStudio\LaravelJsonTranslations\Facades\JsonTranslations;

Route::get('json', function () {
    return JsonTranslations::json(['en', 'de']);
});

Vue i18n example

As the json translations are bound to the window object

import Vue from 'vue';
import VueI18n from 'vue-i18n';

const messages = window.i18n;

Vue.use(VueI18n);

const i18n = new VueI18n({
    locale: 'de',
    fallbackLocale: 'en',
    messages
});

export default i18n;