litelement-18next-mixin

Mixin to allow to use easily the i18next library in any litelement webcomponent.

This mixin allows to store local strings anywhere, and lazy load them in your component, with hot reload.

It relies in localStorage to persists the selection of the language.

Sample

There is a working demo inside the /demo folder

Installing

npm i -S litelement-i18next-mixin

Usage

Add the mixin import

import { i18next, LocalizeMixin, changeLang } from 'litelement-i18n-mixin';

Extend your component

export default class MyComponent extends LocalizeMixin(LitElement) {

Import the strings

import es from './locales/es/common';
import en from './locales/en/common';

Create a getter

static get strings() {
    return {
        es,
        en,
    }
}

Use them in your template

_render({ prop1 }) {
    return html`
    <h2>${i18next.t('my-component:title')}</h2>
    `;
}

Functions

changeLang(lang): Changes the language to the parameter, sets the app language and lazy loads the file for that language

ToDo

• Allow to use strings from external APIs
• Test