Show HN: Y18n – Bare-bones JavaScript internationalization

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14 pointsBenjaminCoe2 comments

This is a nice simplistic implementation for basic apps but could lead to a painful rewrite if you start integrating languages with significantly different grammar constructs than your home language.

If you're really serious about internationalization you need to use a more complete solution like FormatJS[1], which has a really nice React implementation[2].

1. http://formatjs.io/ 2. http://formatjs.io/react/

Agreed, yargs (the CLI app that this was built for) has very basic requirements -- there are only a few dozen strings in the entire codebase.

Having said this I did make an effort to learn from prior work in the area, basing the library on: https://github.com/mashpie/i18n-node

A friend of mine who did a thorough literature review at PayPal also advocated formatjs.io -- although I think this is a little bit too much power for little old yargs.

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