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​
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import i18next from 'i18next';
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import Backend from 'i18next-fs-backend';
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const backend = new Backend({
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  // path where resources get loaded from
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  loadPath: '/locales/{{lng}}/{{ns}}.json'
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});
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​
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i18next
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  .use(backend)
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  .init({
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    // initImmediate: false, // setting initImediate to false, will load the resources synchronously
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    ...opts,
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    ...yourOptions
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  }); // yourOptions should not include backendOptions!
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or just import/require your files directly
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import i18next from 'i18next';
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import en from './locales/en.json'
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import de from './locales/de.json'
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​
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i18next
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  .init({
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    ...opts,
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    ...yourOptions,
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    resources: {
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      en,
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      de
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    }
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  });
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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?​