i18notion

Source i18next resources from your Notion workspace

Goal

i18notion act as a layer on top of i18next and allow you to effortlessly fetch your translations from a Notion block in your team's workspace and generate corresponding resource files

Installation

# With npm
npm install i18next react-i18next
npm install i18notion -D

# or yarn
yarn add i18next react-i18next
yarn add i18notion -D

Getting started

1. Create a new Notion table containing your translations. First rows should contain your headers: one for the groups, one for the keys and one for each language you want to use. Here is an example:

2. Create a Notion internal integration following those instructions.

3. Share the translation table page with your internal integration

4. Retrieve yout internal integration API key and the block ID corresponding to the translation table. You can copy the block link and inspect the result to retrieve it. ie: In the following link https://www.notion.so/Translations-67bdf9435c38401583fde776581a0bf8#000aaa111bbb the block id would be 000aaa111bbb.

5. Place those values in your .env file

NOTION_API_KEY=secret_n0t10n_4p1_k3y
NOTION_BLOCK_ID=000aaa111bbb

6. Run 18notion specifying your resources directory path

  i18notion --resourcesDirPath="./src/features/i18n/resources"

Generated files content should look like this (ie: en.json)

{
  "general": {
    "title": "MyApp",
    "welcome": "Welcome on MyApp!"
  },
  "auth": {
    "login": "Login",
    "logout": "Logout"
  }
}

7. Import the generated files in your i18next config

// ./src/features/i18n/init.ts

import i18next from 'i18next';
import { initReactI18next } from 'react-i18next';

import en from './resources/en.json';
import fr from './resources/fr.json';

export const initI18n = (): void => {
  i18next.use(initReactI18next).init({
    resources: {
      en: {
        translation: en,
      },
      fr: {
        translation: fr,
      },
    },
  });
};

Et voila! You're all set ✅