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lingui-macro

> Babel Macros which
> transforms tagged template literals and JSX components to ICU MessageFormat.

lingui-macro is modified version of [@lingui/macro][linguimacro]
in which defineMessage macro returns string instead of MessageDescriptor. (Migration purpose)

Installation

``sh
npm install --save-dev @lingui/macro@npm:lingui-macro


yarn add --dev @lingui/macro@npm:lingui-macro


`

Usage

See the [reference][reference] documentation.

`js
import { setupI18n } from "@lingui/core"
import { defineMessage } from "@lingui/macro"

const message = defineMessageHello, my name is {name};

/**
* line above is transformed using babel-plugin-macros to string instead of MessageDescriptor
*
* @lingui/macro:
* const message = {id:"msgId", message: "Hello, my name is {name}"};
*
* lingui-macro:
* const message = Hello, my name is {name};
*/

const i18n = setupI18n();

const translatedMessage = i18n._(message, {name: "Steve"})
``

License

[MIT][license]

[license]: https://github.com/abdul-kissflow/lingui-macro/blob/main/LICENSE
[linguijs]: https://github.com/lingui/js-lingui
[reference]: https://lingui.dev/ref/macro/
[linguimacro]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@lingui/macro
[package]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lingui-macro
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