@fluent/dom

@fluent/dom provides the DOM bindings for Project Fluent.

Installation

@fluent/dom can be used both on the client-side and the server-side. You can install it from the npm registry or use it as a standalone script (as the FluentDOM global).

npm install @fluent/dom

How to use

The DOMLocalization constructor provides the core functionality of full-fallback ready message formatting. It uses a lazy-resolved FluentBundle objects from the @fluent/bundle package to format messages.

On top of that, DOMLocalization can localize any DOMFragment by identifying localizable elements with data-l10n-id and translating them.

import { DOMLocalization } from "@fluent/dom";

const l10n = new DOMLocalization(
  ["/browser/main.ftl", "/toolkit/menu.ftl"],
  generateBundles
);

l10n.connectRoot(document.documentElement);

l10n.translateRoots();

const h1 = document.querySelector("h1");

// Sets `data-l10n-id` and `data-l10n-args` which triggers
// the `MutationObserver` from `DOMLocalization` and translates the
// element.
l10n.setAttributes(h1, "welcome", { user: "Anna" });

For imperative uses straight from the JS code, there's also a Localization class that provides just the API needed to format messages in the running code.

import { Localization } from "@fluent/dom";

function* generateBundles() {
  // Some lazy logic for yielding FluentBundles.
  yield* [bundle1, bundle2];
}

const l10n = new Localization(
  document,
  ["/browser/main.ftl", "/toolkit/menu.ftl"],
  generateBundles
);

async function main() {
  const msg = await l10n.formatValue("welcome", { name: "Anna" });
  // → 'Welcome, Anna!'
}