format-message-loader

format-message-loader

Write i18n messages inline. Transpile translations with webpack.

a webpack loader for format-message

install

$ npm install format-message-loader --save-dev

api

formatMessage

in your webpack.config.js

These are the same as options that are passed to formatMessage.setup() See format-message for more information

module.exports = [ "en", "pt", "de" ].map(function(locale) {
  entry: "path/to/entry.js",
  output: {
    path: "path/to/output/",
    filename: "bundle.js"
  },
  module: {
    loaders: [
      {
        test:   /\.js$/,
        loader: "message-format"
      }
    ]
  },
  formatMessage: {
    functionName: "formatMessage", // identifier of function to inline
    locale: locale, // default locale
    translate: function(pattern, locales) {
      // from call formatMessage(pattern, args, locales)
      // if no locales were passed to format, locales will be the default locale (specified above)
      return require("path/to/translations/" + locale + ".json")[pattern];
    },
    translations: { // or rather than a translate function, lookup from an object
      pt: { ... },
      de: { ... }
    },
    keyType: "underscored_crc32", // or "underscored", "normalized", or "literal", default is "underscored_crc32"
    missingTranslation: "warning", // warn instead of fatal error, default is "error", can also be "ignore"
    missingReplacement: "!!NOT TRANSLATED!!" // use this when no translation found, default is the original pattern
  }
});

in your js file:

var formatMessage = require('format-message')
formatMessage('Welcome {name}!', { name:'Bob' })

License

This software is free to use under the MIT license. See the LICENSE-MIT file for license text and copyright information.