Internationalization

For the purpose of this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use Lingui.js. This is a powerful library that not only handles internationalization in native JavaScript applications, but also in React, one of the most well-known JavaScript libraries.

When my last client asked me about internationalization in React, I went through all the hoops to prepare a presentation for them. In this React tutorial, I want to show you the gist of what I have learned about translating a React application.

If you’re creating a web application that requires translation into multiple different languages, it can be difficult to implement this manually. That’s why many use internationalization (i18n) libraries, which make adding translations as simple as adding another string.

In a previous post, Creating a multilingual website with Gatsby, I built kodou.me. Kodou has a Japanese and and English version. The post was a bit long so I didn’t talk about some of the utilities I used and how to build the site’s navigation menu.

A friend recently asked me to build a website which has a Japanese and an English version. I never wrote an internationalized website but I have strong opinions about how localization should work. So here is one way to approach internationalization in Gatsby using Cosmic JS, a headless CMS.

An internationalized HTTP/2 React app that is fast and SEO friendly.

Websites are global by nature, but it is becoming increasingly relevant for businesses of all types to create a multilingual website.

After deciding to remain in the i18n world, I began playing with react-i18next inside some simple NextJs apps, and quickly realised that although internationalising a simple client-side-only React app is fairly easy these days, internationalising an SSR React app (even with how easy NextJs makes it) is a somewhat difficult proposition.

Internationalization is a perfect way to make you project accessible for wider audience.

Recently I had to add a localization to my React Mobx web application. What I wanted to avoid is coding the mechanism of locale resolving from scratch (once again in my life).

Next.js 10 came out with Internationalized Routes... we cover the basics of it in this video, how to load translated remote data, and how to translate text using react-intl.

Learn how to use Internationalized Routing with Next.js to support multiple languages on your site!

Making your website available in multiple languages is a great way to expand your audience. in this episode, Aisha Blake teaches us how to add i18n to our Gatsby sites!

You can use this module to Localize your app, and access the locale data on the native device. Using the popular library i18n-js with expo-localization will enable you to create a very accessible experience for users.

In this course, we will incorporate react-intl into a project created with create-react-app and react-router.

Internationalize React apps