The os-locale npm package is a utility for getting the system locale information. It is primarily used to determine the locale setting of the operating system where the Node.js application is running. This can be useful for applications that need to perform locale-specific operations, such as formatting dates, numbers, or strings according to the user's regional settings.
Get system locale
This feature allows you to asynchronously retrieve the system's current locale setting. The locale is returned as a string, such as 'en-US' for English (United States).
const osLocale = require('os-locale');
osLocale().then(locale => {
console.log(locale);
});Get system locale synchronously
This feature provides a synchronous method to get the system locale. This can be useful in scenarios where asynchronous execution may not be ideal.
const osLocale = require('os-locale');
const locale = osLocale.sync();
console.log(locale);The system-locale package also provides functionality to detect the system's locale. It is similar to os-locale but does not offer a synchronous method, which might make os-locale preferable in scenarios where immediate locale detection is necessary without the complexities of asynchronous code.
Locale2 is another npm package that can be used to get the user's locale. Unlike os-locale, locale2 also tries to detect the locale from the browser environment when used in web contexts, making it a more versatile choice for projects that span both node and browser environments.
Get the system locale
Useful for localizing your module or app.
$ npm install --save os-locale
var osLocale = require('os-locale');
osLocale(function (err, locale) {
console.log(locale);
//=> 'en_US'
});
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Get the system locale
The npm package os-locale receives a total of 5,127,757 weekly downloads. As such, os-locale popularity was classified as popular.
We found that os-locale demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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