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Repository Details

Internationalize React apps. Not only for Component but also for Vanilla JS.

react-intl-universal

react-intl-universal is a React internationalization package developed by Alibaba Group.

npm npm npm

Features

  • Can be used not only in React component but also in Vanilla JS.
  • Simple. Only three main API and one optional helper.
  • Display numbers, currency, dates and times for different locales.
  • Pluralize labels in strings.
  • Support variables in message.
  • Support HTML in message.
  • Support for 150+ languages.
  • Runs in the browser and Node.js.
  • Message format is strictly implemented by ICU standards.
  • Locale data in nested JSON format are supported.
  • react-intl-universal-extract helps you generate a locale file easily.

Live Demo

Usage Trend

Why Another Internationalization Solution for React?

In case of internationalizing React apps, react-intl is one of most popular package in industry. react-intl decorate your React.Component with wrapped component which is injected internationalized message dynamically so that the locale data is able to be loaded dynamically without reloading page. The following is the example code using react-intl.

import { injectIntl } from 'react-intl';
class MyComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    const intl = this.props;
    const title = intl.formatMessage({ id: 'title' });
    return (<div>{title}</div>);
  }
};
export default injectIntl(MyComponent);

However, this approach introduces two major issues.

Firstly, Internationalizing can be applied only in view layer such as React.Component. For Vanilla JS file, there's no way to internationalize it. For example, the following snippet is general form validator used by many React.Component in our apps. We definitely will not have such code separated in different React.Component in order to internationalize the warning message. Sadly, react-intl can't be used in Vanilla JS.

export default const rules = {
  noSpace(value) {
    if (value.includes(' ')) {
      return 'Space is not allowed.';
    }
  }
};

Secondly, since your React.Component is wrapped by another class, the behavior is not as expected in many way. For example, to get the instance of React.Component, you can't use the normal way like:

class App {
  render() {
    <MyComponent ref="my"/>
  }
  getMyInstance() {
    console.log('getMyInstance', this.refs.my);
  }
}

Instead, you need to use the method getWrappedInstance() to get that.

class MyComponent {...}
export default injectIntl(MyComponent, {withRef: true});

class App {
  render() {
    <MyComponent ref="my"/>
  }
  getMyInstance() {
    console.log('getMyInstance', this.refs.my.getWrappedInstance());
  }
}

Furthermore, your React.Component's properties are not inherited in subclass since component is injected by react-intl.

Due to the problem above, we create react-intl-universal to internationalize React app using simple but powerful API.

Get Started

App Examples

Message With Variables

If the message contains variables the {variable_name} is substituted directly into the string. In the example below, there are two variables {name} and {where}, the second argument representing the variables in get method are substituted into the string.

Locale data:

{ "HELLO": "Hello, {name}. Welcome to {where}!" }

JS code:

intl.get('HELLO', { name: 'Tony', where: 'Alibaba' }) // "Hello, Tony. Welcome to Alibaba!"

Plural Form and Number Thousands Separators

Locale data:

{ "PHOTO": "You have {num, plural, =0 {no photos.} =1 {one photo.} other {# photos.}}" }

JS code:

intl.get('PHOTO', { num: 0 }); // "You have no photos."
intl.get('PHOTO', { num: 1 }); // "You have one photo."
intl.get('PHOTO', { num: 1000000 }); // "You have 1,000,000 photos."

Plural label supports standard ICU Message syntax.

Number thousands separators also varies according to the user's locale. According to this document, United States use a period to indicate the decimal place. Many other countries use a comma instead.

Display Currency

Locale data:

{ "SALE_PRICE": "The price is {price, number, USD}" }

JS code:

intl.get('SALE_PRICE', { price: 123456.78 }); // The price is $123,456.78

As mentioned, the locale data is in ICU Message format.

The syntax is {name, type, format}. Here is description:

  • name is the variable name in the message. In this case, it's price.
  • type is the type of value such as number, date, and time.
  • format is optional, and is additional information for the displaying format of the value. In this case, it's USD.

if type is number and format is omitted, the result is formatted number with thousands separators. If format is one of currency code, it will show in corresponding currency format.

Display Dates

Locale data:

{
  "SALE_START": "Sale begins {start, date}",
  "SALE_END": "Sale ends {end, date, long}"
}

JS code:

intl.get('SALE_START', {start:new Date()}); // Sale begins 4/19/2017
intl.get('SALE_END', {end:new Date()}); // Sale ends April 19, 2017

If type is date, format has the following values:

  • short shows date as shortest as possible
  • medium shows short textual representation of the month
  • long shows long textual representation of the month
  • full shows dates with the most detail

Display Times

Locale data:

{
  "COUPON": "Coupon expires at {expires, time, medium}"
}

JS code:

intl.get('COUPON', {expires:new Date()}); // Coupon expires at 6:45:44 PM

if type is time, format has the following values:

  • short shows times with hours and minutes
  • medium shows times with hours, minutes, and seconds
  • long shows times with hours, minutes, seconds, and timezone

Default Message

When the specific key does't exist in current locale, you may want to make it return a default message. Use defaultMessage method after get method. For example,

Locale data:

{ "HELLO": "Hello, {name}" }

JS code:

const name = 'Tony';
intl.get('HELLO', { name }).defaultMessage(`Hello, ${name}`); // "Hello, Tony"

Or using d for short:

const name = 'Tony';
intl.get('HELLO', { name }).d(`Hello, ${name}`); // "Hello, Tony"

And getHTML also supports default message.

const name = 'Tony';
intl.getHTML('HELLO').d(<div>Hello, {name}</div>) // React.Element with "<div>Hello, Tony</div>"

HTML Message

The get method returns string message. For HTML message, use getHTML instead. For example,

Locale data:

{ "TIP": "This is <span style='color:red'>HTML</span>" }

JS code:

intl.getHTML('TIP'); // {React.Element}

Helper

react-intl-universal provides a utility helping developer determine the user's currentLocale. As the running examples, when user select a new locale, it redirect user new location like http://localhost:3000?lang=en-US. Then, we can use intl.determineLocale to get the locale from URL. It can also support determine user's locale via cookie, localStorage, and browser default language. Refer to the APIs section for more detail.

Component Internationalization

When internationalizing a React component, you don't need to intl.init again. You could make it as peerDependency, then just load the locale data in the compoent.

APIs Definition

  /**
   * Initialize properties and load CLDR locale data according to currentLocale
   * @param {Object} options
   * @param {string} options.escapeHtml To escape html. Default value is true.
   * @param {string} options.currentLocale Current locale such as 'en-US'
   * @param {Object} options.locales App locale data like {"en-US":{"key1":"value1"},"zh-CN":{"key1":"值1"}}
   * @param {Object} options.warningHandler Ability to accumulate missing messages using third party services. See https://github.com/alibaba/react-intl-universal/releases/tag/1.11.1
   * @param {string} options.fallbackLocale Fallback locale such as 'zh-CN' to use if a key is not found in the current locale
   * @returns {Promise}
   */
  init(options)


  /**
   * Load more locales after init
   * @param {Object} locales App locale data 
   */
  load(locales)


  /**
   * Get the formatted message by key
   * @param {string} key The string representing key in locale data file
   * @param {Object} variables Variables in message
   * @returns {string} message
   */
  get(key, variables)

  /**
   * Get the formatted html message by key.
   * @param {string} key The string representing key in locale data file
   * @param {Object} variables Variables in message
   * @returns {React.Element} message
  */
  getHTML(key, options)

  /**
   * Helper: determine user's locale via URL, cookie, and browser's language.
   * You may not need this API, if you have other rules to determine user's locale.
   * @param {string} options.urlLocaleKey URL's query Key to determine locale. Example: if URL=http://localhost?lang=en-US, then set it 'lang'
   * @param {string} options.cookieLocaleKey Cookie's Key to determine locale. Example: if cookie=lang:en-US, then set it 'lang'
   * @param {string} options.localStorageLocaleKey LocalStorage's Key to determine locale such as 'lang'
   * @returns {string} determined locale such as 'en-US'
   */
  determineLocale(options)

  /**
   * Get the inital options 
   * @returns {Object} options includes currentLocale and locales
   */
  getInitOptions()

Compatibility with react-intl

As mentioned in the issue Mirror react-intl API, to make people switch their existing React projects from react-intl to react-intl-universal. We provide two compatible APIs as following.

  /**
   * As same as get(...) API
   * @param {Object} options 
   * @param {string} options.id 
   * @param {string} options.defaultMessage
   * @param {Object} variables Variables in message
   * @returns {string} message
  */
  formatMessage(options, variables)
  /**
   * As same as getHTML(...) API
   * @param {Object} options 
   * @param {string} options.id 
   * @param {React.Element} options.defaultMessage
   * @param {Object} variables Variables in message
   * @returns {React.Element} message
  */
  formatHTMLMessage(options, variables)

For example, the formatMessage API

const name = 'Tony';
intl.formatMessage({ id:'hello', defaultMessage: `Hello, ${name}`}, {name});

is equivalent to get API

const name = 'Tony';
intl.get('hello', {name}).d(`Hello, ${name}`);

And the formatHTMLMessage API

const name = 'Tony';
intl.formatHTMLMessage({ id:'hello', defaultMessage: <div>Hello</div>}, {name});

is equivalent to getHTML API

const name = 'Tony';
intl.getHTML('hello', {name}).d(<div>Hello</div>);

FAQ

1. How to Internationalize Message in Constants Object

If constants are defined outside of a React component, the message in constants.fruits may get loaded before intl.init(...). This can cause a warning to be displayed, such as react-intl-universal locales data "null" not exists.

// Wrong: the message in constants.fruits is loaded before `intl.init(...)`
const constants = {
  fruits : [
    { label: intl.get('banana'), value: 'banana' },
    { label: intl.get('apple'), value: 'apple' },
  ]
}
function MyComponent() {
  return <Select dataSource={constants.fruits} />
}

To fix this, you should call intl.init before render.

Solution 1

Make the message object as a function, and call it at render function.

const constants = {
    fruits : () => [  // as arrow function
        { label: intl.get('banana'), value: 'banana' },
        { label: intl.get('apple'), value: 'apple' },
    ]
}
function MyComponent() {
    // fruits is a function which returns message when rendering
    return <Select dataSource={constants.fruits()} />
}

Solution 2

Use getter syntax to make a function call when that property is looked up

const constants = {
  fruits: [
    {
      get label() {
        return intl.get("banana");
      },
      value: "banana",
    },
    {
      get label() {
        return intl.get("apple");
      },
      value: "apple",
    },
  ],
};
function MyComponent() {
  // When "label" property is looked up, it actually make a function call 
  return <Select dataSource={constants.fruits} />;
}

2. How to Bind Event Handlers to an Internationalized Message

const MyComp = (props) => {
  const onClick = (e) => {
    if (e.target.tagName === 'A') {
      // event handler for "A" tag in the message
    }
  };
  return (
    // Wrap the message in a container and listen for the children's events.
    <span onClick={onClick}>
      {intl.getHTML('more_detail').d(<span>Please refer to the <a>document</a> for more detail.</span>)}
    </span>
  )
}

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An enterprise-class low-code technology stack with scale-out design / 一套面向扩展设计的企业级低代码技术体系
TypeScript
1,683
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92

async_simple

Simple, light-weight and easy-to-use asynchronous components
C++
1,662
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93

havenask

C++
1,586
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94

clusterdata

cluster data collected from production clusters in Alibaba for cluster management research
Jupyter Notebook
1,554
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95

mdrill

for千亿数据即席分析
Java
1,538
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96

kt-connect

A toolkit for Integrating with your kubernetes dev environment more efficiently
Go
1,519
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97

Virtualview-Android

A light way to build UI in custom XML.
Java
1,455
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98

yalantinglibs

A collection of modern C++ libraries, include coro_rpc, struct_pack, struct_json, struct_xml, struct_pb, easylog, async_simple
C++
1,431
star
99

tb_tddl

1,410
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100

data-juicer

A one-stop data processing system to make data higher-quality, juicier, and more digestible for LLMs! 🍎 🍋 🌽 ➡️ ➡️🍸 🍹 🍷为大语言模型提供更高质量、更丰富、更易”消化“的数据!
Python
1,292
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