redux-polyglot

Toolset (actions, reducer, middleware, enhancer, selectors) to help use Polyglot with Redux.

Installation

    npm install --save redux-polyglot

(not published yet)

Setup

First of all, you need the polyglot reducer in your rootReducer :

import { createStore, combineReducers } from 'redux';
import { polyglotReducer } from 'redux-polyglot';

const rootReducer = combineReducers({
    ...yourReducers,
    polyglot: polyglotReducer,
});
const store = createStore(rootReducer, {});

Usage

Set the language

without middleware

You can use redux-polyglot without his middleware, for this you need the setLanguage() action creator :

• setLanguage :: String -> Object -> Action

Example:

import { setLanguage } from 'redux-polyglot';

store.dispatch(setLanguage('en', { yolo: 'yolo' }));

second parameter should be polyglot phrases (see polyglot documentation)

note: if language phrases already exists, this will overwrite the corresponding object state.

with middleware

The createPolyglotMiddleware() function allow you to automatically update language and phrases by listening to specific action(s).

The middleware catches specific action(s), and find the locale in the payload, and then [asynchronously] load the polyglot phrases (with Promise).

It takes 4 parameters and return a middleware :

• 1 - actionToCatch :: String | Array<String>
  • the type(s) of the action to catch
• 2 - getLocale :: Object -> String
  • a function that take the catched action as parameter and return new language.
• 3 - getPhrases :: String -> Promise Object
  • a function that take the language (as provided by setLocale) and return a Promise of Object ( Object should be polyglot phrases )

the middleware will catch actionToCatch

import { createStore, combineReducers, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';

const polyglotMiddleware = createPolyglotMiddleware(
    'ACTION_TO_CATCH',
    action => action.payload.locale,
    locale => new Promise(resolve => {
        // use locale for fetch phrases.
        resolve({
            hello: 'hello'
        });
    }),
)

const store = createStore(rootReducer, {}, applyMiddleware(polyglotMiddleware));

you can catch more than one action passing an array of action types:

const polyglotMiddleware = createPolyglotMiddleware(
    ['FIRST_ACTION_TO_CATCH', 'SECOND_ACTION_TO_CATCH'],
    getLocale,
    getPhrases,
)

note: if language has not changed, nothing happens.

Translation

with getP() selector

You can use the getP(state) selector.

It returns an object with 4 functions inside :

• t: String -> String : translation (the original polyglot t function)
• tc: String -> String : translation capitalized
• tu: String -> String : translation upper-cased
• tm: (String -> String) -> String -> String : translation using a custom morphism

(see polyglot documentation)

Getting current locale

getLocale(state) selector returns current language.

If you use React

You can use connect() from react-redux, and the getP() selector, to get the p prop in your component.

Proptype:

p: PropTypes.shape({
    t: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
    tc: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
    tu: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
    tm: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
}),

translate() enhancer

props.p can be also be provided easily to a component with the translate enhancer :

import { translate } from 'redux-polyglot';
const DummyComponentWithPProps = translate(DummyComponent);

get locale in a component

You can also use the getLocale() selector inside a mapStateToProps from react-redux.

Proptype: locale: PropTypes.string,

Team

These folks keep the project moving and are resources for help:

• Jérémy Vincent (@jvincent42) - developer
• Jalil Arfaoui (@JalilArfaoui) - developer
• Guillaume ARM (@guillaumearm) - developer