facebook/fbt

A JavaScript Internationalization Framework

FBT is an internationalization framework for JavaScript designed to be not just powerful and flexible, but also simple and intuitive. It helps with the following:

• Organizing your source text for translation
• Composing grammatically correct translatable UI
• Eliminating verbose boilerplate for generating UI

Examples

See our demo here See our React Native demo here

Requirements

• Node.js
• Yarn
• Babel

Building the fbt library

git clone git@github.com:facebook/fbt.git
cd fbt
yarn install

NOTE: if you make changes to the fbt runtime that you’d like to test in the demo-app, be sure to run this command to rebuild the JS code:

yarn build-runtime

Using fbt

See how to use the source directly with Babel and Webpack in our demo-app.

How FBT works

FBT works by transforming your <fbt> and fbt(...) constructs via Babel plugins. These plugins serve to extract strings from source and lookup translated payloads generated at build-time. FBT creates tables of all possible variations for the given fbt phrase and accesses this at runtime.

Full documentation

https://facebook.github.io/fbt

Join the fbt community

• Website
• Facebook group
• Discord #fbt channel in reactiflux
• Twitter

See the CONTRIBUTING file for how to help out.

Change log

See CHANGELOG.

List of npm modules published from this repo:

• fbt (client-side)
  • See package.json config
• babel-plugin-fbt (server-side)
  • See package.json config
• babel-plugin-fbt-runtime (server-side)
  • See package.json config
• fb-babel-plugin-utils (server-side, used by babel-plugin-fbt-runtime)
  • See package.json config

How to release a new npm version

# Go to the module's folder (where package.json is located)
cd fbt-runtime/
# or
# cd packages/babel-plugin-fbt/
# cd packages/babel-plugin-runtime/

# publishes to npm and push new git tag to Github
yarn publish_to_npm_latest

License

FBT is MIT licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.