• ​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, 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: you can load translations from filesystem​

• for example for http server (express, Fastify, etc...): you can load translations from filesystem​

• ​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?​