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

• you can lazy load translations via dynamic import

• 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?