/fbt

A JavaScript Internationalization Framework

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

FBT is an internationalization framework for JavaScript designed to be both powerful and flexible, but also simple and intuitive. It helps with the following:

  • Organizing your source text for translation
  • Composing grammatically correct translatable UI
  • Eliminating verbose boilerplate for generating UI

Examples

See our demo here

Requirements

Building fbt

git clone git@github.com:facebookincubator/fbt.git
cd fbt
yarn install

Installing fbt

See how to use the source directly with Babel and Webpack in our demo-app:

yarn install # from fbt repo
cd demo-app
yarn manifest
yarn collect-fbts
yarn translate-fbts
yarn start

How FBT works

FBT works by transforming your <fbt> and fbt(...) constructs via Babel plugins. These plugins serve to extract strings from source and lookup translate payloads generated at build-time. FBT creates tables of all possible variations for the given fbt phrase and accesses this at runtime.

Full documentation

https://facebookincubator.github.io/fbt

Join the fbt community

See the CONTRIBUTING file for how to help out.

License

FBT is MIT licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.