🔥 Babel Macros 🎣 are finally released! After few weeks of fiddling with API, i18n macros are finally out without a breaking release. This is the first part of RFC-001, final form be delivered in next release.

Important: Macros are completely optional and Babel plugins will work until v3. It's not mandatory to migrate to macro, but recommended.

New Features

New package @lingui/macro published (#318). Big thanks to Matt Labrum for initial implementation.
Pseudolocalization (#309). Thanks to Martin Cerny.
Extract description of messages (#197).
Add i18n.date and i18n.number methods (#299).

Bug Fixes

CLI: how help for unrecognized commands (#308). Thanks to An Nguyen.
Fix Flow types (#306).

Readme

Source

@lingui/macro

Babel Macros which transforms tagged template literals and JSX components to ICU MessageFormat.

@lingui/macro is part of LinguiJS. See the documentation for all information, tutorials and examples.

Installation

npm install --save-dev @lingui/macro
# yarn add --dev @lingui/macro

Usage

See the reference documentation.

import { setupI18n } from '@lingui/core'
import { t } from '@lingui/macro'

const i18n = setupI18n()

const message = i18n._(t`Hello, my name is ${name} and today is ${date(now)}`)

// line above is transformed using babel-plugin-macros to this
// const message = i18n._(/*i18n*/{ id: "Hello, my name is {name} and today is {now,date}", values: { name, now }})

License

MIT

Keywords

babel-plugin-macros

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Last updated on 10 Sep 2018

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