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vavilon.js

A quick, lightweight and easy-to-use i18n engine for static websites

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How to Install

To use vavilon.js on your website you should connect the script in your webpage's <head>. Here are some ways to get this going:

via CDN (recommended)

You can get vavilon.js via jsDelivr. This is the fastest and the most reliable way:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vavilon@1/dist/vavilon.min.js"></script>

via NPM

If you use NPM with your static website, you can install vavilon.js using npm:

npm install vavilon

Then you can include the script in your webpage like so:

<script src="./path/to/node_modules/vavilon/dist/vavilon.min.js"></script>

Manual download

You can find latest version of vavilon.js in Releases section on GitHub. Download either the minified or the uncompressed version and include it in your document:

<script src="./path/to/vavilon.min.js"></script>

How to use

  1. Create your HTML page on open the one you've already created. Set the lang attribute in your <html> tag:

    <html lang="en">
        <head>
            <title>Hello World!</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            <h1>How are you?</h1>
        </body>
    </html>

    If you rely on multiple versions of the same language (like US and UK English), you can user the country-specific lang codes (i.e. en-us, en-uk)

  2. Give unique IDs to every string on your HTML page that you want to have translated. Put the IDs inside the data-vavilon attribute and add the vavilon class to these elements:

       <html lang="en">
           <head>
               <title class="vavilon" data-vavilon="hello-world">Hello World!</title>
           </head>
           <body>
               <h1 class="vavilon" data-vavilon="how-are-you">How are you?</h1>
           </body>
       </html>
  3. Create JSON dictionary files for the languages you want to support. Each file should be an object, with the keys being the unique string IDs and values being the translated strings. Here's an example for Russian language:

    {
      "hello-world": "Привет мир!",
      "how-are-you": "Как дела?"
    }
  4. Connect the dictionaries inside <head> element. Add the data-vavilon-dict attribute to specify the dictionaries language:

    <script type="application/json" src="path/to/ru.json" data-vavilon-dict="ru"></script>
  5. Download and connect the latest version of vavilon.js. Upon doing so, your page now will automatically change its language based on the end user's browser locale.

  6. If you want your user to be able to switch languages, you can set it up by using the setLang function:

    <button onclick="setLang('en')">English version</button>

Caveats

As you may have guessed from the major version number being 0, the library is not completely finished. Here are some things that are not supported or don't work as expected:

Styling and inline tags

Right now vavilon.js replaces the text of the elements, not their HTML code, which means that the code like

<p class="vavilon" data-vavilon="hello">Hello <b>world</b>!</p>

will not have the word "world" written in bold.

The support for styling your strings will come in future releases. If this is crucial for you, you can use a workaround like this:

<p>
    <span class="vavilon" data-vavilon="hello-1">Hello</span>
    <b class="vavilon" data-vavilon="hello-2">world</b>!
</p>

This way you can define separate IDs for the words "Hello" and "world" inside your dictionary file.

Framework compatibility

While it is possible to create static websites using frameworks like Vue.js, React and Svelte, the support for those has not been tested at all. If you use these frameworks I would highly recommend you use something other than vavilon.js, like the i18n plugins created specifically for these frameworks.

With regard to jQuery, it has not been tested yet either, but I guess it should work just fine. If you want to play around with vavilon.js and jQuery, I encourage you do so.


If you encounter any bugs, don't hesitate filing an issue

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