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Vite Plugin

@lingui/vite-plugin is a Vite plugin, which compiles Lingui catalogs on the fly and provides additional required configuration for Vite.

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Installation​

Install @lingui/vite-plugin as a development dependency:

npm install --save-dev @lingui/vite-plugin

For a complete installation guide, see Installation and Setup.

Usage​

Simply add @lingui/vite-plugin inside your vite.config.ts:

vite.config.ts
import { UserConfig } from "vite";
import { lingui } from "@lingui/vite-plugin";

const config: UserConfig = {
  plugins: [lingui()],
};

Then in your code all you need is to use dynamic imports to load only necessary catalog. Extension is mandatory.

export async function dynamicActivate(locale: string) {
  const { messages } = await import(`./locales/${locale}.po`);

  i18n.load(locale, messages);
  i18n.activate(locale);
}
tip

If you are using a format that has a different extension than *.po, you need to specify the ?lingui suffix:

const { messages } = await import(`./locales/${language}.json?lingui`);

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