Project goal is to provide the same easy way to translate a website on serverside like in i18next on the clientside:
- Translation inside your server code or template
- loading resourcefiles
- update resourcefiles with missing strings
- interpolation, plurals, nesting or resources
- serve the same resources to the clientside
npm install i18next
First require the module and init i18next:
var i18next = require('i18next');
i18next.init(); // for options see i18next-node gh-page
Register the express middleware, so we can check current language settings:
// Configuration
app.configure(function() {
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(i18next.handle);
app.use(app.router);
[...]
});
Register AppHelper so you can use the translate function in your template:
i18next.registerAppHelper(app)
Now you can (depending on your template language) do something like this in you template:
// sample in jade
body
span= t('app.name')
To serve the clientside script and needed routes for resources and missing keys:
i18next.serveClientScript(app)
.serveDynamicResources(app)
.serveMissingKeyRoute(app);
now you can add the script to you page and use i18next on the client like on the server:
script(src='i18next/i18next.js', type='text/javascript')
$.i18n.init([options], function() {
$('#appname').text($.t('app.name'));
});
for more information on clientside usage have a look at i18next
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