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Package description
The y18n npm package is a library that provides internationalization (i18n) support for your Node.js applications. It allows you to define translations for your application's text strings and switch between different languages at runtime based on user preferences or other criteria.
Locale String Translation
This feature allows you to translate strings into different locales. You define a set of translations for each language, and y18n will replace placeholders with the appropriate translations.
{"en": {"My cat is %s": "My cat is %s"}, "es": {"My cat is %s": "Mi gato es %s"}}
Pluralization
y18n supports pluralization, which means it can handle different translations based on the number of items. This is useful for languages that have different word forms depending on the count.
{"en": {"cat": {"one": "%d cat", "other": "%d cats"}}, "es": {"cat": {"one": "%d gato", "other": "%d gatos"}}}
Locale Switching
With y18n, you can switch the active locale at runtime, which allows your application to change languages on the fly based on user input or other conditions.
y18n.setLocale('es');
i18next is a very popular internationalization framework for JavaScript. It offers a rich feature set including variable replacement, nesting, formatting, and more. It is more feature-rich and has a larger ecosystem than y18n, including plugins for frontend frameworks and backend integrations.
react-intl is designed specifically for React applications and provides React components and an API to format dates, numbers, and strings, including pluralization and handling translations. It is more specialized for React than y18n, which is more general-purpose.
Polyglot.js is a tiny I18n helper library that provides simple translation and pluralization. It is smaller and has a simpler API compared to y18n, making it a good choice for projects that require a lightweight solution.
Readme
The bare-bones internationalization library used by yargs.
Inspired by i18n.
simple string translation:
var __ = require('y18n').__
console.log(__('my awesome string %s', 'foo'))
output:
my awesome string foo
pluralization support:
var __n = require('y18n').__n
console.log(__n('one fish %s', '%d fishes %s', 2, 'foo'))
output:
2 fishes foo
The JSON language files should be stored in a ./locales
folder.
File names correspond to locales, e.g., en.json
, pirate.json
.
When strings are observed for the first time they will be added to the JSON file corresponding to the current locale.
Create an instance of y18n with the config provided, options include:
directory
: the locale directory, default ./locales
.updateFiles
: should newly observed strings be updated in file, default true
.locale
: what locale should be used.fallbackToLanguage
: should fallback to a language-only file (e.g. en.json
)
be allowed if a file matching the locale does not exist (e.g. en_US.json
),
default true
.Print a localized string, %s
will be replaced with arg
s.
Print a localized string with appropriate pluralization. If %d
is provided
in the string, the count
will replace this placeholder.
Set the current locale being used.
What locale is currently being used?
Update the current locale with the key value pairs in obj
.
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FAQs
the bare-bones internationalization library used by yargs
The npm package y18n receives a total of 58,405,538 weekly downloads. As such, y18n popularity was classified as popular.
We found that y18n 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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