babel-plugin-react-intl-auto

⚠️ DEPRECATED - This plugin is deprecated. React Intl has evolved into FormatJS which now includes automatic ID generation out of the box. For new projects, we recommend using FormatJS directly.

i18n for the component age. Auto management react-intl ID.

React Intl is awesome. But, Global ID management is difficult and confusing.

Many projects, like react-boilerplate, give the ID to the name of the component as a prefix. But it is redundant and troublesome.

This babel-plugin releases you from cumbersome ID management. Based on the file path, this automatically generates a prefixed id.

Also, we strongly encourage you to use extract-react-intl-messages. You can generate json automatically.

Goodbye, global ID!!

Before

import { defineMessages, FormattedMessage } from 'react-intl'

export default defineMessages({
  hello: {
    id: 'App.Components.Greeting.hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello {name}',
  },
  welcome: {
    id: 'App.Components.Greeting.welcome',
    defaultMessage: 'Welcome!',
  },
})

const MyComponent = () => (
  <FormattedMessage
    id="App.Components.Greeting.goodbye"
    defaultMessage="goodbye {name}"
  />
)

After

With babel-plugin-react-intl-auto.

import { defineMessages, FormattedMessage } from 'react-intl'

export default defineMessages({
  hello: 'hello {name}',
  welcome: 'Welcome!',
})

const MyComponent = () => <FormattedMessage defaultMessage="goodbye {name}" />

See examples.

With extract-react-intl-messages

Example usage with extract-react-intl-messages.

$ extract-messages -l=en -o translations 'src/**/*.js'

en.json

{
  "components.App.hello": "hello {name}",
  "components.App.welcome": "Welcome",
  "components.App.189751785": "goodbye {name}" // unique hash of defaultMessage
}

Install

npm

$ npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-react-intl-auto

# Optional: TypeScript support
$ npm install --save-dev @babel/plugin-transform-typescript

yarn

$ yarn add --dev babel-plugin-react-intl-auto

# Optional: TypeScript support
$ yarn add --dev @babel/plugin-transform-typescript

Usage

.babelrc

{
  "plugins": [
    [
      "react-intl-auto",
      {
        "removePrefix": "app/",
        "filebase": false
      }
    ]
  ]
}

with injectIntl

Input:

import { injectIntl } from 'react-intl'

const MyComponent = ({ intl }) => {
  const label = intl.formatMessage({ defaultMessage: 'Submit button' })
  return <button aria-label={label}>{label}</button>
}

injectIntl(MyComponent)

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Output:

import { injectIntl } from 'react-intl'

const MyComponent = ({ intl }) => {
  const label = intl.formatMessage({
    id: 'App.Components.Button.label',
    defaultMessage: 'Submit button',
  })
  return <button aria-label={label}>{label}</button>
}

injectIntl(MyComponent)

with useIntl

Input:

import { useIntl } from 'react-intl'

const MyComponent = () => {
  const intl = useIntl()
  const label = intl.formatMessage({ defaultMessage: 'Submit button' })
  return <button aria-label={label}>{label}</button>
}

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Output:

import { useIntl } from 'react-intl'

const MyComponent = () => {
  const intl = useIntl()
  const label = intl.formatMessage({
    id: 'App.Components.Button.label',
    defaultMessage: 'Submit button',
  })
  return <button aria-label={label}>{label}</button>
}

Options

removePrefix

remove prefix.

Type: string | boolean | regexp
Default: ''

if removePrefix is true, no file path prefix is included in the id.

Example (src/components/App/messages.js)

when removePrefix is "src"

import { defineMessages } from 'react-intl';

export default defineMessages({
  hello: 'hello world'
});

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import { defineMessages } from 'react-intl';

export default defineMessages({
  hello: {
    id: 'components.App.hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello world'
  }
});

when removePrefix is "src.components"

import { defineMessages } from 'react-intl';

export default defineMessages({
  hello: 'hello world'
});

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import { defineMessages } from 'react-intl';

export default defineMessages({
  hello: {
    id: 'App.hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello world'
  }
});

when removePrefix is true

import { defineMessages } from 'react-intl';

export default defineMessages({
  hello: 'hello world'
});

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import { defineMessages } from 'react-intl';

export default defineMessages({
  hello: {
    id: 'hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello world'
  }
});

filebase

Type: boolean
Default: false

if filebase is true, generate id with filename.

moduleSourceName

Type: string
Default: react-intl

if set, enables to use custom module as a source for defineMessages etc.

https://github.com/akameco/babel-plugin-react-intl-auto/issues/74#issuecomment-528562743

includeExportName

Type: boolean | 'all'
Default: false

if includeExportName is true, adds named exports as part of the id.

Only works with defineMessages.

Example

export const test = defineMessages({
  hello: 'hello {name}',
})

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export const test = defineMessages({
  hello: {
    id: 'path.to.file.test.hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello {name}',
  },
})

If includeExportName is 'all', it will also add default to the id on default exports.

extractComments

Use leading comments as the message description.

Only works with defineMessages

Type: boolean
Default: true

Example

export const test = defineMessages({
  // Message used to greet the user
  hello: 'hello {name}',
})

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export const test = defineMessages({
  hello: {
    id: 'path.to.file.test.hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello {name}',
    description: 'Message used to greet the user',
  },
})

useKey

Only works with intl.formatMessage, FormattedMessage and FormattedHTMLMessage. Instead of generating an ID by hashing defaultMessage, it will use the key property if it exists.

Type: boolean
Default: false

Example

intl.formatMessage({
  key: 'foobar',
  defaultMessage: 'hello'
});

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intl.formatMessage({
  key: 'foobar',
  defaultMessage: 'hello',
  "id": "path.to.file.foobar"
});

<FormattedMessage key="foobar" defaultMessage="hello" />

      ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓

<FormattedMessage id="path.to.file.foobar" key="foobar" defaultMessage="hello" />

separator

Allows you to specify a custom separator

Type: string
Default: .

Example

when separator is "_"

export const test = defineMessages({
  hello: 'hello {name}',
})

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export const test = defineMessages({
  hello: {
    id: 'path_to_file_test_hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello {name}',
  },
})

relativeTo

Allows you to specify the directory that is used when determining a file's prefix.

This option is useful for monorepo setups.

Type: string
Default: process.cwd()

Example

Folder structure with two sibling packages. packageB contains babel config and depends on packageA.

|- packageA
| |
|  -- componentA
|
|- packageB
| |
|  -- componentB
| |
|  -- .babelrc

Set relativeTo to parent directory in packageB babel config

{
  "plugins": [
    [
      "react-intl-auto",
      {
        "relativeTo": "..",
        // ...
      },
    ],
  ]
}

Run babel in packageB

cd packageB && babel

Messages in componentA are prefixed relative to the project root

export const test = defineMessages({
  hello: 'hello {name}',
})

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export const test = defineMessages({
  hello: {
    id: 'packageA.componentA.hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello {name}',
  },
})

Support variable

Example

const messages = { hello: 'hello world' }

export default defineMessages(messages)

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const messages = {
  hello: {
    id: 'path.to.file.hello',
    defaultMessage: 'hello wolrd'
  }
};

export default defineMessages(messages);

TypeScript

TypeScript support is bundled with this package. Be sure to include our type definition and run @babel/plugin-transform-typescript beforehand. This way, you can also be empowered by extract-react-intl-messages.

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    // ...
    "jsx": "preserve"
    // ...
  },
  "include": ["node_modules/babel-plugin-react-intl-auto/**/*.d.ts"]
}

.babelrc

{
  "plugins": [["@babel/plugin-transform-typescript"], ["react-intl-auto"]]
}

webpack.config.js

Use babel-loader along with ts-loader when using webpack as well.

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.tsx?$/,
        exclude: [/node_modules/],
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'babel-loader',
          },
          {
            loader: 'ts-loader',
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  },
}

Related

babel-plugin-react-intl-id-hash

If you want short consistent hash values for the ID, you can use react-intl-id-hash in addition to this plugin to help reduce your applications bundle size.

extract-react-intl-messages

Extract react-intl messages.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

akameco 💻 ⚠️ 👀 📖	Aleksander Heintz 💻 📖	Ryan Leckey 💻	Adam 💻 📖	Guylian Cox 💻 📖 ⚠️	Carl Grundberg 💡 📖	bradbarrow 💻 📖 ⚠️
Mauro Gabriel Titimoli 💻 ⚠️	Stanislav Ermakov 💻	Chitoku 💻	Kouta Kumagai 📖 💻 ⚠️	Shahyar G 💻	Remco Haszing 💻	jmarceli 💻 ⚠️
Dominik Żegleń 💻 ⚠️	Filip "Filson" Pasternak 💻	Eric Masiello 💻 ⚠️	Josh Poole 💻 ⚠️

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

License

MIT © akameco