📦 React i18n Editor

Enables localization editor directly on your website

It's developer oriented, completely free and has built-in i18next support

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Introduction

It allows you to create translation from scratch, editing existing localization and saving this to backend while being on the webpage the whole time.

This library is a FREE refinement of the existing solution with intuitive interface, thought through concept and high quality code with TypeScript under the hood. It's developer oriented, which means full support and discussion open.

Motivation

• When editing existing localization it's hard finding values in editor every time manually, even worse if you need to edit multiple languages at the same time.
• If you have dedicated a translator or your clients want to edit localization on their own in future, you need a "localization editing" feature for them, which not every team can afford.

There is already existing plugin for it to enable editor, but it's currently deprecated, not complete free and has constrained design.

Usage

Install

bun i react-i18n-editor

npm i react-i18n-editor
pnpm i react-i18n-editor

yarn add react-i18n-editor

Import

Import I18nEditorContainer and I18nextMiddleware to connect to an existing i18next context.

import "react-i18n-editor/dist/styles/main.css"

import i18next from "i18next"
import { I18nEditorContainer, I18nextMiddleware } from "react-i18n-editor"

function App() {
  return (
    <I18nextProvider i18n={i18next}>
      <I18nEditorContainer middleware={I18nextMiddleware}>
        {/* ... Whole App or Area you want to be highlightable ... */}
      </I18nEditorContainer>
    </I18nextProvider>
  )
}

Styles

This is vital to work as intended - you need to import library styles

import "react-i18n-editor/dist/styles/main.css"

Hot-keys

Binding	Description
ctrl + Mouse Left	Enables selecting an area on the page

Laziness

This library might be pretty heavy for your website, so don't forget to use React.lazy when importing the components.

Start with creating new file (I18nEditorLazy.tsx) with I18nEditorContainer

I18nEditorLazy.tsx

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import "react-i18n-editor/dist/styles/main.css"

import { ReactNode } from "react"
import { I18nEditorContainer, I18nextMiddleware } from "react-i18n-editor"

interface AppI18nEditorContainerProps {
  children: ReactNode
}

function AppI18nEditorContainer(props: AppI18nEditorContainerProps) {
  return (
    <I18nEditorContainer middleware={I18nextMiddleware}>
      {props.children}
    </I18nEditorContainer>
  )
}

// This is essential part for `React.lazy`.
export default AppI18nEditorContainer

App.tsx

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import i18next from "i18next"
import { lazy } from "react"

const AppI18nEditorContainerLazy = lazy(() => import("./AppI18nEditorContainer"))

function App() {
  return (
    <I18nextProvider i18n={i18next}>
      <AppI18nEditorContainerLazy>
        {/* ... Whole App or Area you want to be highlightable ... */}
      </AppI18nEditorContainerLazy>
    </I18nextProvider>
  )
}

You can implement it to your admin panel, so only admins will load this heavy editor but not your precious users :_>

Not i18next

To connect i18next, you will need i18next-react and pass I18nextMiddleware component to container prop in I18nEditorContainer

import "react-i18n-editor/dist/styles/main.css"

import i18next from "i18next"
import { I18nEditorContainer, I18nextMiddleware } from "react-i18n-editor"

function App() {
  return (
    <I18nextProvider i18n={i18next}>
      <I18nEditorContainer middleware={I18nextMiddleware}>
        {/* ... Whole App or Area you want to be highlightable ... */}
      </I18nEditorContainer>
    </I18nextProvider>
  )
}

However if you don't want to use i18next and you use your custom localization service, you can customize behavior by creating your own container similar to I18nextMiddleware.

Start from creating a component similar to I18nextMiddleware

• Import I18nEditorUI and I18nEditorContainerProps type
• Create interlayer between I18nEditorUI and your implementation of localization service.

import { I18nEditorUI } from "react-i18n-editor"
import type { I18nEditorContainerProps } from "react-i18n-editor"

// Abstract of your localization service.
import myCustomLocalization from "./myCustomLocalization"

interface MyCustomEditorContainerProps extends I18nEditorContainerProps {}

function MyCustomEditorContainer(props: MyCustomEditorContainerProps) {
  const defaultLanguage = myCustomLocalization.getDefaultLanguage()
  const languages = myCustomLocalization.getLanguages()
  const resources = myCustomLocalization.getResources()

  function onLanguageChange() {
    // ...
  }
  function onResourceChange() {
    // ...
  }

  return (
    <I18nEditorUI
      root={props.root}

      defaultLanguage={defaultLanguage}
      languages={languages}
      onLanguageChange={onLanguageChange}

      resources={resources}
      onResourcesChange={onResourceChange}
    />
  )
}

Then simply pass your MyCustomEditorContainer to container prop as you do with I18nextMiddleware and that's it.

import "react-i18n-editor/dist/styles/main.css"

import i18next from "i18next"
import { I18nEditorContainer } from "react-i18n-editor"

import MyCustomEditorContainer from "./MyCustomEditorContainer"

function App() {
  return (
    <I18nextProvider i18n={i18next}>
      <I18nEditorContainer container={MyCustomEditorContainer}>
        {/* ... Whole App or Area you want to be highlightable ... */}
      </I18nEditorContainer>
    </I18nextProvider>
  )
}

Contribution

Please, help me moving this library forward with your feedback to GitHub Issues or my discord server \(^_^)