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How to translate your React.js app with i18next

Oksana Ivanchenko on May 03, 2019

Today, I will show you how to translate the text and date in your React.js application. First of all, you must install some dependencies: yarn ...

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Anton Bagdatyev (Tonix-Tuft) • Sep 30 '19

Thank you for your article Oksana!

How do you manage the fact that translations files may be cached by the browser and therefore if you publish an updated translation file, let's say public/locales/ru/translation.json, the browser may still continue to use an outdated cached version of public/locales/ru/translation.json.

Did you find a solution for that as well?

Super Turbo • Sep 3 '19 • Edited

Hi Oksana! Great solution, thank you! I'd like to ask you about an issue I have whenever I run it...

It outputs a red screen, with white fonts and the following error:

“A React component suspended while rendering, but no fallback UI was specified. Add a component higher in the tree to provide a loading indicator or placeholder to display”

I don't understand where does it come from, since the <Suspense/> component has already been filled with the fallback:

const Loader = () => {
  return <div>loading...</div>
};
export default props => {
    return (
        <Suspense fallback={<Loader />}>
        ...
        </Suspense>
    )
}

Thank you in advance Oksana!

Felix K • Nov 23 '20

Thank you for the summary. I found that those i18n-libraries are not enough to keep translation-files in sync, which is why I wrote "attranslate" as an additional tool for file-synchronization: github.com/fkirc/attranslate you can give it a try if you are seeking a free solution

Guillermo Tobar • May 5 '19

Thanks for sharing the post, its content is very valuable.

kilofafeure • Jun 13 '19

Beginner web developer? I've read a lot of solutions for i18next and you have been the only one that has made my app be translated correctly, all very clear. You are agoddess!!! Thanks a lot!!!

Oksana Ivanchenko • Jun 26 '19

Wow! Thanks for your comment! I’m very happy that you found this article helpful

Ronald Flores Sequeira • May 3 '19

Cool, now I have something to play with on the weekend.

RemeberIamLove • Oct 17 '19

Thank you Oksana! It works like a charm!

Ahmet Cetin • Nov 22 '19

The simplest just to the point explanation I've seen so far about i18next. Thx a lot for sharing this. i18next should put this article in their website as Getting Started.

Adriano Raiano • Apr 17 '21

i18next-xhr-backend is deprecated, i18next-http-backend can be used now.

i.e. dev.to/adrai/how-to-properly-inter...

Eric Farias • Mar 5 '20

It works fine with props? I mean suppose I have a header component that receive a prop title to render some things like this.

Nguyen Duong • Sep 1 '19

I read and integrated follow i18next documents but my project failed. Since I read your post and follow it, I very surprise. I got it. You are my idol. Thank you so much!