Locale Modules

A Locale Module is a translation file in which all properties and translations are scoped locally by default.

/* ./locale/en_US.js */
export default {
  button: {
    next: 'Next'
  }
}

/* ./locale/sk_SK.js */
export default {
  button: {
    next: 'Dalej'
  }
}

/* ./Example.jsx  */
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Translate from 'react-translate-maker';
import locale from './locale';

export default class Example extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Translate path={locale.button.next} defaultValue="Next" />
    );
  }
}

Naming

For local path camelCase naming is recommended, but not enforced.

Why?

modular and reusable translations

• No more conflicts
• Explicit dependencies
• No global scope
• Automatic extraction of the translations

Implementation

The main idea is very similar to CSS Modules. We already implemented webpack plugin for the locales modules named translate-maker-loader which you are able to use on the server too with the babel-plugin-webpack-loaders. This loader also contains locale extractor (plugin). This plugin will extract all translations into the locale files. You can load this files with the adapter of the translate-maker available for the React too react-translate-maker.