fluent-sequence
provides mapping functions from string identifiers to
FluentBundle
instances taken from synchronous or asynchronous sequences.
It's part of Project Fluent, a localization framework designed to unleash the
expressive power of the natural language.
fluent-sequence
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 FluentSequence
global).
npm install fluent-sequence
An ordered iterable of FluentBundle
instances can represent the current
negotiated fallback chain of languages. This iterable can be used to find the
best existing translation for a given identifier.
fluent-sequence
provides two mapping functions: mapBundleSync
, and
mapBundleAsync
. They can be used to find the first FluentBundle
in the
given iterable which contains the translation with the given identifier. If
the iterable is ordered according to the result of a language negotiation the
returned FluentBundle
contains the best available translation.
A simple function which formats translations based on the identifier might be implemented as follows:
import {mapBundleSync} from "fluent-sequence";
function formatString(id, args) {
// contexts is a negotiated iterable of FluentBundle instances.
let ctx = mapBundleSync(contexts, id);
if (ctx === null) {
return id;
}
let msg = ctx.getMessage(id);
return ctx.format(msg, args);
}
When passing a synchronous iterator to mapBundleSync
, wrap it in
CachedSyncIterable
from the cached-iterable
package. When passing an
asynchronous iterator to mapBundleAsync
, wrap it in CachedAsyncIterable
.
This allows multiple calls to mapContext*
without advancing and eventually
depleting the iterator.
Find out more about Project Fluent at projectfluent.org, including documentation of the Fluent file format (FTL), links to other packages and implementations, and information about how to get involved.