First setup help

Let's try to figure out what you need.

​For which environment are you looking for an i18n solution?​
​Special handling for serverless environments (AWS lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, etc...)​
​Do you need a language detector for your environment?​
​Do you want to bundle the translations with your app?​
​Do you want to load the translations separate from your app via http?​
​Do you want to manage your translations with an awesome translation management system?​
For which environment are you looking for an i18n solution?
​Client, server, browser, React, mobile, desktop, Node.js, Deno...
There are a lot of appropriate libraries. Have a look at this list.​
Special handling for serverless environments (AWS lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, etc...)
Make use of i18next-fs-backend​
import i18next from 'i18next';
import Backend from 'i18next-fs-backend';
​
const backend = new Backend({
  // path where resources get loaded from
  loadPath: '/locales/{{lng}}/{{ns}}.json'
});
​
i18next
  .use(backend)
  .init({
    // initImmediate: false, // setting initImediate to false, will load the resources synchronously
    ...opts,
    ...yourOptions
  }); // yourOptions should not include backendOptions!
or just import/require your files directly
import i18next from 'i18next';
import en from './locales/en.json'
import de from './locales/de.json'
​
i18next
  .init({
    ...opts,
    ...yourOptions,
    resources: {
      en,
      de
    }
  });
Do you need a language detector for your environment?
for example for the browser: i18next-browser-languageDetector​
for example for http server (express, Fastify, etc...): i18next-http-middleware​
​there are other plugins here​
Do you want to bundle the translations with your app?
​you can add translations on init​
​you can add translations after init​
on server side: you can load translations from filesystem​
Do you want to load the translations separate from your app via http?
served from your own endpoint: i18next-http-backend​
served from a professional CDN of a translation management system: i18next-locize-backend​
​there are a lot of other backend possibilities here​
Do you want to manage your translations with an awesome translation management system?
​Ready to take i18next to the next level?​