@mi18n/react

Mi18n for React
The Mi18n i18n SDK for React

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What is Mi18n for React?

React integration library of Mi18n. This package makes it super simple to add i18n to your React app! For more information about using Mi18n with React, visit the docs 📖.

Localize (translate) your CRA, Next.js, or other React projects to multiple languages with Mi18n. Integration of Mi18n is extremely simple! 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇩🇪 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇷🇺 🇬🇧

Quick links

• Mi18n for React docs
• Mi18n JS SDK docs
• Mi18n Website
  • Product (Learn more about the great features)
    • Dev tools
    • Translation assistance
    • Collaboration
• Mi18n platform docs

Installation

npm install @mi18n/react

Then use the library in your app:

import { Mi18nProvider, ReactPlugin, FormatSimple } from "@mi18n/react";

const mi18n = Mi18n()
  .use(ReactPlugin())
  .use(FormatSimple())
  .init({
    language: 'en',
    apiUrl: process.env.REACT_APP_MI18N_API_URL,
    apiKey: process.env.REACT_APP_MI18N_API_KEY
  });


<Mi18nProvider
  mi18n={mi18n}
>
  <Your app components>
</Mi18nProvider>

Usage

To translate texts using Mi18n React integration, you can use T component or useTranslate hook.

T component

import { T } from "@mi18n/react";

...

<T>translation_key</T>

or

<T keyName="translation_key">Default value</T>

useTranslate hook

import { useTranslate } from "@mi18n/react";

...

const { t } = useTranslate();

...

t("key_to_translate")

Prerequisites

• You have some React-based project
• You have generated an API key from Mi18n Cloud or a self-hosted Mi18n instance.

Why to use Mi18n?

Because it saves a lot of time, you would spend on localization tasks without it. Because it enables you to provide perfectly translated software.

Features

• All-in-one localization solution for your JS application 🙌
• Out-of-box in-context localization 🎉
• Automated screenshot generation 📷
• Translation management platform 🎈
• Open-source 🔥

Read more on the Mi18n website

Development

We welcome your PRs.

To develop the package locally:

• Clone the repository
• Install the packages in the repository root

pnpm install

• Run the development script

pnpm develop:react

This runs the development suite of this monorepo for the react integration. The changes in each dependency package are automatically built and propagated to the test application, which you can open and play within the browser.

Testing

To run Jest tests of this package, execute

npm run test

In the /packages/react directory.

End-to-end (e2e) testing

To run the e2e tests, simply execute

pnpm run e2e run react

To open and play with e2e tests, run:

pnpm run e2e open react

Contributors