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Example app with React Intl
How to use
Using create-next-app
Download create-next-app
to bootstrap the example:
npx create-next-app --example with-react-intl with-react-intl-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-react-intl with-react-intl-app
Download manually
Download the example or clone the repo:
curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-react-intl
cd with-react-intl
Install it and run:
npm install
npm run dev
Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)
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The idea behind the example
This example app shows how to integrate React Intl with Next.
Features of this example app
- Server-side language negotiation
- React Intl locale data loading via
pages/_document.js
customization - React Intl integration at Next page level via
pageWithIntl()
HOC <IntlProvider>
creation withlocale
,messages
, andinitialNow
props- Default message extraction via
babel-plugin-react-intl
integration - Translation management via build script and customized Next server
Translation Management
This app stores translations and default strings in the lang/
dir. This dir has .messages/
subdir which is where React Intl's Babel plugin outputs the default messages it extracts from the source code. The default messages (en.json
in this example app) is also generated by the build script. This file can then be sent to a translation service to perform localization for the other locales the app should support.
The translated messages files that exist at lang/*.json
are only used during production, and are automatically provided to the <IntlProvider>
. During development the defaultMessage
s defined in the source code are used. To prepare the example app for localization and production run the build script and start the server in production mode:
$ npm run build
$ npm start
You can then switch your browser's language preferences to French and refresh the page to see the UI update accordingly.