Yai is a simple i18n module for any environment.
Yai allow to you create your own method to read and write keys for localization. Therefore, if you don't want to write your own accessors you can use ready accessors for JSON storage.
At first, you need accessor which can read from your storages required files. It can be JSON or connection to database (if you need server side localization). Anyway, rules are simple:
var i18n = require('yai');
module.exports = i18n([translator function], [language switcher function]);
where
function translator(lang, keyset, key) {
// your magic here
return valueByKey;
}
function langSwitcher(newLang){
// just switches language
}
translator
function just acept language code, keyset name, key and returns value of key in given keyset of language. And languageSwitcher
just changes some value of language code which used in translator. Pretty simple, don't it?
By default there are JSON i18n-storage in the Yai package.
const i18n = require('./node/lang')(addressOfStorage).i18n;
i18n('keyset', 'key');
// -> Key from addressOfStorage/keyset/en.json
i18n.lang('ru');
// Switch language
i18n('keyset', 'key');
// -> Key from addressOfStorage/keyset/ru.json
Yai toolkit provide simple API to maintain i18n storages via command line.
Usage: yai [options]
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-l, --lang [lang] Choose language
-k, --keyset [set] Choose keyset
-a, --add <key> <value> Add key to keyset
-r, --remove [key] Remove key from
-s, --setup [address] Setup address for keysets
-A, --use-adder [adder] Use custom adder function
-R, --use-remover [remover] Use custom remover function
-i, --info Show info
-e, --storage-type Storage type
-c, --compile Build i18n bundle
--setup-adder [adder] Setup adder
--setup-remover [remover] Setup remover
config Shows configuration file