Ability to call formatting API without wrapping a component with InjectIntl() in class components

[mtcanada]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Our project is fairly huge and already contains wrapped components by one another so we really do not want to use InjectIntl() to wrap class components to use formatting API (it also breaks some tests as well).

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if we could just import intl from 'react-intl' and "intl.API" to call the API ( like intl.formatMessage)
OR
Is there any way to call Formatting API without using InjectIntl() for class components? possibly with createIntl()?

Describe alternatives you've considered
At least simpler and less complicated way to use formatting API in class components

Additional context
This complexity of InjectIntl() makes it very to use React Intl in a big project. We are about to use other libraries just because we do not want to use InjectIntl(), but the rest of the library and related babel-plugins are very good so if possible I would like to keep using React-Intl.

[longlho]

you can use our React hook useIntl as well.

[mtcanada]

you can use our React hook useIntl as well.

I believe useIntl is only for functional component.

[longlho]

We do export IntlContext so technically you can get the Consumer out of that. Would that work for you?

The intl object from react-intl is a cached instance of several thing, including locale so it's not something we can export out statically. That falls on the user land.

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