react-i18loader

react-i18loader is a webpack loader for React (or React framework, e.g. Next.js) i18n(Internationalization) solution.

Documentation in Chinese 中文文档

How it work?

1. Extract the sentences to be translated from the target file.
2. Generate a JSON file corresponding to target file and fill in the extracted sentences.
3. Loader will hanler the target file to import this JSON file and add a method to retrieve the translations.
4. Change the $lang in props (You can change it in state or get the value by function, depends on your webpack config) to change the APP language.

Usage

Simple usage

Set Up

First install it:

npm install react-i18loader --save-dev

Configure webpack

{
    test: /\.(js|jsx)$/, // this loader will generate *.lang.json beside *.jsx files
    exclude: [
        /(node_modules)|(\.next)/,
    ],
    use: {
        loader: "react-i18loader",
        options: {
            // The folder where store the language json file.
            // If storePath value is null or empty, the language json file would store corresponding to target js/jsx file
            storePath: "locales",
            languages: ["zh_Hans_CN", "zh_Hant_HK", "en_US"], // The langauages that you App supported
        }
    }
}

Put label @i18n("Page_Or_Component_Name") on your pages or components

hello.js

import React, { Component } from "react";

@i18n("Hello")
export default class Hello extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }

  render() {
    const msg = "我是简体";
    return <div>
      <p>你好，欢迎使用react-i18loader，发现代码之美</p>
      <p>{msg}</p>
    </div>
  }
}

• You need to change the $lang in props to change the language

index.js

import React, { Component } from "react";
import Hello from "../components/hello";

export default class Index extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      lang: "zh_Hans_CN"
    };
  }

  changeLang(lang) {
    this.setState({lang});
  }

  render() {
    return <div>
      <button onClick={this.changeLang.bind(this, "zh_Hans_CN")}>简体中文</button> 
      <button onClick={this.changeLang.bind(this, "zh_Hant_HK")}>繁體中文</button>
      <button onClick={this.changeLang.bind(this, "en_US")}>English</button>
      <Hello $lang={this.state.lang}/>
    </div>
  }
}

Advance usage

Configure webpack for more customization

{
    // this loader will generate *.lang.json beside *.jsx files
    test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
    exclude: [
        /(node_modules)|(\.next)/,
    ],
    use: {
        loader: "react-i18loader",
        options: {
            // The folder where store the language json file.
            // If storePath value is null or empty, the language json file would store corresponding to target js/jsx file
            storePath: "locales",

            // Required fields.
            // The langauages that you App supported
            languages: ["zh_Hans_CN", "zh_Hant_HK", "en_US"],


            // Optional fields.
            // The target component object where the loader will put a filed "$lang" in.
            method: "props", // It could be these three values: props, state, func 
            // The content to be translated. And the content must accord with this RegEx, default value is Chinese Simplified
            regText: "[\u4e00-\u9fa5\u3002\uff1b\uff0c\uff1a\u2018\u2019\u201c\u201d\uff08\uff09\u3001\uff1f\uff01\ufe15\u300a\u300b]+",
        }
    }
}

Property Of options

storePath

Indicate the folder where store the language json file. If storePath value is null or empty, the language json file would store corresponding to target js/jsx file.

languages

It should be an array which could contain the target language. You can also add Ja_JP, In_In ,bala and so on to this array.

regText

Based on the regular text regText, you can extract the matching text as the translation source.

So if you want to translate Chinese into other languages，you should set：

regText: "[\u4e00-\u9fa5\u3002\uff1b\uff0c\uff1a\u2018\u2019\u201c\u201d\uff08\uff09\u3001\uff1f\uff01\ufe15\u300a\u300b]+"

method

Property method could be these three values: props, state, func. Its default value is props.

value | description |
-|-| props | An property name $lang would add to the props of React component, so you need to change the props.$lang to change the web language. For more information, please refer the set_lang_via_props in examples folder | state | An property name $lang would add to the state of React component, so you need to change the state.$lang to change the web language. For more information, please refer the set_lang_via_state in examples folder | func | You need to add a method $getLang() {return XXX; // The language code like 'zh_Hans_CN' to your React component}. For more information, please refer the set_lang_via_func in examples folder|

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