web-pseudo-localizer

to test your website's localizability

web-pseudo-localizer provides the ability to scrape web pages and convert any text to pseudo-localized characters to test your website's localizability.

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Install

npm i web-pseudo-localizer

Usage

const pseudoLocalizer = require('web-pseudo-localizer')

pseudoLocalizer('http://example.com', {
  prefix: '[',
  suffix: ']',
  expansion: 30,
  bidi: 'rtl',
});

------------------------- OR -------------------------------

const pseudoLocalizer = require('web-pseudo-localizer')

let options = {
  prefix: '[',
  suffix: ']',
  expansion: 10,
  bidi: 'ltr',
}
pseudoLocalizer('http://example.com', options);

API

pseudolocalizer(url, options?)

options

type: Object

prefix

type: string
default: '['

suffix

type:string
default: ']'

expansion (It provides extra white space to test strings in the target language that take up more space than the source language.)

type:number
default: 1
unit: %

bidi

type: string
default: 'ltr'
text direction: ltr | rtl

Note

Chromium is used as the default browser. The default size of the browser viewport is 800 x 600. To change the viewport in full view mode, open your browser DevTools and click the Toggle device toolbar: the shortcut for windows Ctrl+Shift+J and then Ctrl+Shift+M twice.