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Don't use i18next ❌😒

Nevo David on September 30, 2024

According to npmjs.com statistics, i18next is the most popular internationalization library for React. This is probably due to the right choice of...
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Masud Al Imran • Edited

Almost every project I have worked on I implemented internationalization myself, I don't find any significant benefit using i18next that I can't implement myself pretty easily. I think trying to use plugins for every small functions are overkill.
P.S. I also don't like using autocomplete/ search bar plugins. I insist on making one up myself.

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Ellis

AgreedπŸ‘

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henrywills22

interesting... do you always get your projects translated just in the json files without any external tool?

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Nevo David

I think it all comes down to the amount of languages and amount of translations you need

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Tomasz Świstak • Edited

How do you handle different pluralization rules across different languages? For me, having it is a main benefit for using i18n libraries. English is pretty simple with just one plural form, but many languages use different forms depending on quantity. Also, as a user of such language, I really dislike seeing that translators couldn't use proper plural form and used all at once or a random one.

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Jan Cizmar

Exactly <3

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KhΓ‘nh HoΓ ng (Marcus) • Edited

Totally agreed

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Clara Quintela

Me too.

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Martin Baun

Agreed. Tolgee does it perfectly.

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Dane Stevens

You can one-click install Tolgee on Railway.app to easily host your own Tolgee instance:
railway.app/template/gpEPyD?referr...

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Nevo David

Awesome!

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henryjohn21

Looks cool, thanks!

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Nevo David

Yas!

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Isaac Zepeda

oh no I already started using it, I gotta say I had some hard time with it

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Nevo David

Oh, what was the problem?

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Isaac Zepeda

I'm still not able to make it read the spanish translations file in production, I have all the variables set correctly just loading the english file for some reason. Also I add to implement my own middleware for a telegram bot, I mean at the end almost everything I solvable, it just it wasn't as smooth as the documentation says.

Also the documentation was a little overwheelming

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Melody Mbewe

Great reads @nevodavid. Thanks for the insights

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Brook

I used i18next for a project at work then we migrated to lingui, but Tolgee looks interesting.

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Nevo David

You should try it out πŸš€

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Best Codes

I've tried Tolgee, and it's pretty nice, but I honestly preferred Crowdin translate over it.

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Nevo David

Why?

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Best Codes

The Crowdin setup was more intuitive for me. It was easier to integrate with my GitHub account to auto translate my apps and stuff. Plus, you can AI translate in bulk (then review, of course), which helped me translate Codequill all in one day. :D

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smithjohn21

Tolgee has the batch translation feature now. AFAIK it was added like year ago or something.

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Best Codes

Does it have OpenAI integration for it?

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Jan Cizmar

Hey! Tolgee has something called Tolgee AI translator, which is based on OpenAI. In comparison to legacy translators like Google Translate or DeepL, it uses much more data. tolgee.io/platform/translation_pro...

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Best Codes

With Crowdin I can already use my own custom AI API endpoints and tokens, or OpenAI, Google, etc. with any custom models I want. :)

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Jan Cizmar

This is indeed something, we should think of.

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kamran2121

we exactly got to this issue when storing arrays in i18next data

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Nevo David

Time to move to Tolgee :)

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Steven

Thanks for the insights!

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Nevo David

You are welcome :)

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Johannes

we were planning to use next-intl - any objections?

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Jan Cizmar • Edited

As a Tolgee creator, I would recommend you Tolgee. 🀠 We are actually using next-intl for some part of Next integration. :)

tolgee.io/js-sdk/integrations/reac...

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Johannes

why tho? Sell it to me :D

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Roman

Sounds like competitors ad

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Andrew

What do you think of: formatjs.io/docs/intl/ ?
We are using it and it works well.

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Nevo David

It's good :)
But it stateless, it means that you can only translate through code

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Jan Cizmar

btw. Tolgee JS uses the ICU MessageFormat implementation provided by FormatJS, which depends on the intl classes.