@sherby/sherby-localize

Sherby.LocalizeMixin

If you want to translate, to localize your application or simply only regroup all static texts, the Sherby.LocalizeMixin can help you.

The mixin internally use a fork of AppLocalizeBehavior to wraps the Format.js library with Chrome.i18n translation files. The Chrome.i18n format allow to add an optional description associated with the translation (message), to give an additional context to translators.

By exemple, a locales/en-CA.json file:

{
  "meat-toppings": {
    "description": "A pizza is nothing without meat.",
    "message": "Meat Toppings",
  }
}

If you want to have nested localization files, as below, you simply need to provide all keys of the nested object, separate by . (delimiter by default). By exemple, the key meat-toppings.bacon-pieces will provide the correct translation (Bacon Pieces) for the following json file:

{
  "meat-toppings": {
    "bacon-pieces": {
      "description": "Bacon is life!",
      "message": "Bacon Pieces"
    }
  }
}

Also, as this mixin use the UdeS.LanguageMixin, the localized file associated with the current language is dynamically loaded and the localised texts are automatically translated when the current language change.

Usage

• Add the @sherby/sherby-localize dependency to your projet:

  npm install @sherby/sherby-localize

• Create the locales directory near the component you want localized and add the localize files:

  locales/en-CA.json

  {
    "bacon-pieces": {
      "description": "Bacon is life!",
      "message": "Bacon Pieces"
    }
  }

  locales/fr.json

  {
    "bacon-pieces": {
      "description": "Bacon is life!",
      "message": "Morceaux de bacon"
    }
  }

• Use it

  // Import the `SherbyLocalizeMixin` inside the component you want localized
  import { SherbyLocalizeMixin } from '@sherby/sherby-localize/sherby-localize-mixin.js';
  import { html, PolymerElement } from '@polymer/polymer/polymer-element.js';
  
  /* eslint-disable no-unused-vars */
  
  // Apply the mixin to your element class
  /**
   * @customElement
   * @polymer
   * @extends {PolymerElement}
   * @appliesMixin SherbyLocalizeMixin
   */
  class MyElement extends SherbyLocalizeMixin(PolymerElement) {
    static get template() {
      // Use the `localize` function to translate all texts
      return html`
        <h2>[[localize('meat-toppings')]]</h2>
      `;
    }
  
    /**
     * Get the localized bacon pieces string.
     * @param {Function} localize Localize function.
     * @return {String} Localized bacon pieces.
     */
    getLocalizedBaconPieces(localize) {
      return localize('meat-toppings.bacon-pieces') || '';
    }
  }

Demo

<sherby-localize-demo></sherby-localize-demo>

Language aware with UdeS.LanguageMixin

If you want your component to be aware of the current language only, you should take a look on UdeSLanguageMixin, a mixin used by SherbyLocalizeMixin.

Thanks

Special thanks to the Collaborne team for his app-localize-chrome-i18n-mixin mixin that inspired me for this mixin.