i18n-react
===
React (JS) text internationalization and externalizing.
Markdown-ish syntax with variables support (including of react element type).

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``js
var ReactDOM = require('react-dom');
var React = require('react');
const { MDText } = require('i18n-react');

const T = new MDText({
greeting: "#Hello, World!\n My name is {myName}! \n {{howAreYou}}",
howAreYou: "_How do you do?_"
}, { MDFlavor: 1 });

ReactDOM.render(
,
document.getElementById('content')
);
`

Unsurprisingly renders:
**


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My name is i18n-react!

_How do you do?_

**

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Usually texts are retrived from an extrenal source (I would recommend YAML format) but
loading of the external files is out of scope for the library.

`yaml
greetings:
hello: Hi, {who}!
howdy:
formal: How do you do?
normal: How are you, {who}?
informal: "What's up?"
bye: Bye

longTime:
0: Not a day no see
1: 1 day no see
'2..4': A few days no see
_: "[{context} days][Long time no see]"
`

Points of interest:
* {who} - variable interpolation
* formal/informal - context selectors
* longTime - pluralization and range
* [X days][...] - renders two paragraphs




Usage


Npm compatible packager (browserify/webpack) is recommended, but `Dist` folder also contains UMD versions
(regular and minified) that can be used w/o commonJS packager.

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`js
/ ES6 & TS /
import T from 'i18n-react';
/ commonJS /
var T = require('i18n-react').default;
/ when using UMD version w/o modules /
var T = window['i18n-react'].default;
`


Setup once - probably in an application entry point js:
`js
T.setTexts({
greeting: "Hello, World! My name is {myName}! \n {{howAreYou}}",
howAreYou: "_How do you do?_"
}, { MDFlavor: 0 });
/ or if there is yaml/json loader /
var dictionary = require('../texts/texts-en.yml');
T.setTexts(dictionary);
`

Use it anywhere:
`xml



X}}/>


{T.translate("path.to.string", { context: "context", val: 1})}


`

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In case you want to control lifecycle of the dictionary object (instead of default singleton)
it can be created with MDText constructor.
`js
import { MDText } from 'i18n-react';
let T = new MDText({...});
let x = T.translate("path.to.string");

`

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MDText object can be passed in the react 16.3+ context. See examples/yaml for complete example.
`tsx
import { MDText } from 'i18n-react';
let MDTextContext = React.createContext();
let Texts = new MDText({...});


{ (T) =>

}

`

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Text attribute is a key that should point to string or JSON object, it has to be present in the language resource.
Then if needed the context is used to disambiguate betwen multiple texts according to the following rules:
1. Exact match for the context value.
1. For numeric context values - key with range, e.g. 2..4 that matches context value.
1. Explicit default - '_' key.
1. First key.

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By default if translation for the specified key is not present the key itself is returned
to help you find the missing translation.
This behaviour can be augmented by passing custom notFound value to setText options or MDText contructor.

This value can be either a string, or a function returning a string.
If it is a string, then it will be returned as is any time a key is missing.
If you provide a function, then the function will be run with the missing key
and context as arguments.

`js
// "Not Found!" will replace all missing translations
T.setTexts(translations, {
notFound: 'Not Found!'
})

// "SomeKey <-- this guy" will appear instead
T.setTexts(translations, {
notFound: key => ${key} <-- this guy
})

// you can combine this solution with markdown!
T.setTexts(translations, {
notFound: key => ${key} // will render SomeKey
})
`

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Translation dictionaries can be extended with functions (as in notFound).

`js
T.setTexts({
a: 'A',
n: (_key, ctx) => ctx ? Number ${ctx} : '',
});
T.translate('a')) // 'A'
T.translate('n', { context: 9 })) // 'Number 9'
`

Markdown syntax

+ italic italic - breaking change V1, in V0
+ _italic_ _italic_ - breaking change V1, in V0
+ bold bold new - V1
+ __bold__ __bold__ new - V1
+ ~underlined~ underlined new - V1
+ ~~strike~~ ~~strike~~ new - V1
+ \n New Line

+ [Paragraph 1][Paragraph 2] Multiple paragraphs


+ #-#### Headers

-


+ \\ \as\\_[IS]\_ \\ Literal new - V1

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You are welcomed to consult examples folder and unit tests for usage details and examples.

Breaking changes

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##### Literal \\ changed to better match GitHub
Allows matching number of backticks (with optional whitespace) to form a literal. This allows quoting of the backtick pairs: `` ` ` `` => ` ` .

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##### Literal \\ in V1 syntax
New \\ syntax \\ (in V1 only) to disable MD processing.

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##### React 16+ required
As React now allows fragments and strings in render the default behavior of changed not to wrap the output into when tag property is not specified.

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##### New MD syntax
The new MD flavor (aligned with github's Markdown) is added : V1. Opt-in for this release, will become default in the next major release.
V1 introduces strike and underline, and rehabilitates and tags.

`yaml
em: "an italic style"
i: "an _italic_ style"
strong: "a bold move"
b: "a __bold__ move"
u: "an ~underlined~ word"
strike: "a ~~strike~~ out"
`
To opt-in for the new syntax:
`js
let T = new MDText(texts, { MDFlavor: 1 });
// or for the singelton
T.setTexts(require('../texts/texts-en.yml'), { MDFlavor: 1, notFound: 'NA' });
`
#### notFound Deprecation
MDText notFound property is deprecated - please switch to constructor or serTexts options.

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##### Unknown Prop Warning
React 15.2 is preparing to stop filtering HTML properties (https://fb.me/react-unknown-prop) - the feature that i18n relied upon for
preventing interpolation variables from leaking into the DOM.

Thus new syntax for passing variables is introduced:
`xml

/ replaces /

`
All tags passing to T.* anything beside `text`, `tag` and `context` properties have to be updated or React 15.2 will cry annoyingly.

##### typescript 2.0 / ts@next typings
Updated package.json contains all the info for the new typescript to get typings automatically.

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* ES6 style export (use default export explicitly for commonJS/UMD)
* Stateless react components (shouldComponentUpdate optimization removed)
* Default export (T above) no longer can be used as a react component (use T.text or T.span instead)

Development

#### Commands
* Watch commonJS build: `$ npm start`
* Build commonJS/UMD version: `$ npm run build`
* Start dev server for examples: `$ npm run examples` (http://localhost:1818/webpack-dev-server/examples/)
* Build examples: `$ npm run build:examples`
* Run tests (Firefox): `$ npm test`
* Watch tests (Chrome): `$ npm run test:watch``