Webpacker and I18n

README.md

$ rails new my-i8n --webpack

Gemfile

gem 'i18n-js'

$ bundle --binstubs
$ yarn add i18n-js
$ bin/rails webpacker:install:erb

app/javascript/i18n-js/index.js.erb

import I18n from "i18n-js"
I18n.translations = <%= I18n::JS.filtered_translations.to_json %>;
export default I18n

app/javascript/packs/application.js

import I18n from 'i18n-js/index.js.erb'
console.log(I18n.t('hello'))

$ bin/rails g controller welcome index

config/routes.rb

root 'welcome#index'

app/views/layouts/application.html.erb

<%= javascript_pack_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>

$ bin/rails s

Hello! @bazzel It works well for me. BUT I have a doubt, why

bundle --binstubs

Why not use the binstub of the specific gem which required it?
Or why it doesn't work with just bundle

Hi @joseglego,

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure where I read this, but to my understanding --binstubs creates a /bin directory so commands can be executed as bin/rails s instead of rails s or bundle exec rails s.

Hi @bazzel,
In my case all is good, but if I change default locale to something else rather than "en", it still defaults to EN. Any idea what can be wrong?

i have added

application_controller.rb

before_action :set_locale

  def default_url_options(options = {})
    { locale: I18n.locale }.merge options
  end

  def set_locale
    default_locale = Rails.configuration.i18n.default_locale.to_s
    begin
      if params[:locale].to_s.in? MyI8n::LOCALES
        params_locale = params[:locale].to_s
      end
      if request.env['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'].present?
        candidate_locale = request.env['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'].scan(/^[a-z]{2}/).first
        if candidate_locale.to_s.in? MyI8n::LOCALES
          request_locale = candidate_locale.to_s
        end
      end
      @locale = params_locale || session[:locale].presence || request_locale || default_locale
      I18n.locale = @locale.to_s
      session[:locale] = I18n.locale
    rescue
      I18n.locale = default_locale
      session[:locale] = I18n.locale
    end
  end

config/application.rb

module MyI8n
  LOCALES = %w[de fr en].freeze

  class Application < Rails::Application
    # Initialize configuration defaults for originally generated Rails version.
    config.load_defaults 5.2
    config.i18n.available_locales = MyI8n::LOCALES
    config.i18n.default_locale = 'en'
    config.i18n.fallbacks = (['en'] + MyI8n::LOCALES).uniq
  end
end

routes.rb

scope '(:locale)', locale: /#{I18n.available_locales.join('|')}/ do
    root 'welcome#index'
  end

and also created fr & de yml files.
The result i have always hello world in english in application.js though if i add in the view

<%= I18n.locale %>

and switch locale it shows the correct one.

I have a question here, since webpacker support ERB, why not just use I18n from Rails directly?

I have a question here, since webpacker support ERB, why not just use I18n from Rails directly?

@hiveer ERB asset files will be evaluated at compile time, not upon each request, so the only locale you'll be able to see is the one set as default.

How can I make sure webpacker invalidates the cached translations and regenerate the i18n-js/index.js.erb?
When I change the translations that are used in my JS, the translations are not updated in I18n.translations.

Ditto @cunknown, @bazzel is there a way to auto-update these without reloading the server when making changes in dev? Thanks for the gist, very helpful

@cunknown @strickland84 don't have an answer for that, I'm afraid. To be honest: I didn't get that far when writing this up, so I think this needs some more investigation.

If you want to use the rails set locale, you can take this solution:

app/layouts/applcation.html.erb - save default locale in a global variable (LOCALE) you can access everywhere.

...
<script type="text/javascript">
  var LOCALE = "<%= I18n.locale %>";
</script>
...

app/javascript/i18n-js/index.js.erb - use the global variable LOCALE

import I18n from "i18n-js"

I18n.translations = <%= I18n::JS.filtered_translations.to_json %>;
I18n.locale = LOCALE;

export default I18n;

Other points should match the example.

can you do this without using erb? I'm having other problems with erb and webpacker.

Great

Awesome

👍 thanks man, that saved me at least a few hours.

Hi, we are changing our front end to use only React as a Single Page Application inside the Rails app with Webpacker.

I wonder if i can use i18n-js to translate html generated from React.
With this piece of code, i am able to receive translations in React code but the js import of I18n only gives defaultLocale, not the currentLocale.
I can write code to get currentLocal from localStorage or cookies easily but is there a way to handle url without rewriting the detection functions in js ?

Anyone managed to combine this with jest tests?

Thanks for the Hint @kfiltschew! So you can just use:

import I18n from "i18n-js"
I18n.translations = <%= I18n::JS.filtered_translations.to_json %>;
I18n.locale = "<%= I18n.locale %>";
export default I18n

in i18n-js/index.js.erb

@m-andreas Nope you can't