ember-intl

Notable Features

• Display numbers with separators.
• Display dates and times correctly.
• Display dates relative to "now".
• Pluralize labels in strings.
• Support for 150+ languages.
• Built on standards using ICU message syntax and the browser's native Intl API.
• Extensive Ember Service API and template helpers for formatting and translating.
• Addon support (addon translations are bundled with the host app).

Installation

• ember install ember-intl

Depending on your projects targeted browsers, the Intl.JS polyfill may be necessary. Read more about the polyfill installation methods.

Documentation

Documentation is hosted in the repository within the /docs folder.

Translations

Translations are defined in ICU message syntax and store in <project_root>/translations in either JSON and/or YAML format. Nested directories are supported along with nested objects within your translation files.

Example basic translation file /translations/homepage/en-us.yaml:

homepage:
  banner: '<strong>{product}</strong> will cost <em>{price, number, USD}</em> if ordered by {deadline, date, time}'

If your translation keys contain periods, i.e., "foo.bar.baz": 'hello world!' install the addon ember-intl-dot-notation.

Setting runtime locale

This is can be done at any point within your app boot process. Typically this is within your application route's beforeModel hook using the intl.setLocale Ember service API.

  // app/routes/application.js
  export default Ember.Route.extend({
    intl: Ember.inject.service(),
    beforeModel() {
      /* NOTE: if you lazily load translations, here is also where you would load them via `intl.addTranslations` */
      return this.get('intl').setLocale(['fr-fr', 'en-us']); /* array optional */
    }
  });

Helper Examples

Format Number

Formats numbers using Intl.NumberFormat, and returns the formatted string value.

{{format-number num}}
{{format-number num format='EUR'}}
{{format-number num style='currency' currency='USD'}}
{{format-number undefined fallback=(t 'unknown_number')}}

Or programmatically convert a number within any Ember Object.

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  intl: Ember.inject.service(),
  computedNumber: Ember.computed('intl.locale', 'cost', function() {
    return this.get('intl').formatNumber(this.get('cost')/*, optional options hash */);
  })
});

Format Number Options

List of supported format number options

Format Date

Formats dates using Intl.DateTimeFormat, and returns the formatted string value.

{{format-date now weekday='long' timeZone='UTC'}}
{{format-date now hour='numeric' minute='numeric' hour12=false}}
{{format-date undefined fallback=(t 'unknown_start_date')}

Or programmatically convert a date within any Ember Object.

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  intl: Ember.inject.service(),
  computedNow: Ember.computed('intl.locale', function() {
    return this.get('intl').formatDate(new Date()/*, optional options hash */);
  })
});

Format Date Options

List of supported format date options

Format Time

This is just like the {{format-date}} helper, except it will reference any string-named format from formats.time.

{{format-time now format='hhmmss'}}
{{format-time now hour='numeric' minute='numeric' hour12=false}}
{{format-time undefined fallback=(t 'unknown_start_time')}}

Or programmatically convert a time within any Ember Object.

// example
export default Ember.Component.extend({
  intl: Ember.inject.service(),
  computedNow: Ember.computed('intl.locale', function() {
    return this.get('intl').formatTime(new Date()/*, optional options hash */);
  })
});

Format Time Options

List of supported format date options

Format Relative

Formats dates relative to "now" using IntlRelativeFormat, and returns the formatted string value.

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  timestamp: Ember.computed(function() {
    let date = new Date();
    date.setDate(date.getDate() - 3);
    return date;
  })
});

{{format-relative timestamp}} -> 3 days ago
{{format-relative undefined fallback=(t 'unknown_created_on')}} -> unknown

Or programmatically convert a relative time within any Ember Object.

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  intl: Ember.inject.service(),
  yesterday: Ember.computed('intl.locale', function() {
    let date = new Date();
    return this.get('intl').formatRelative(date.setDate(date.getDate() - 1)/*, optional options hash */);
  })
});

Live Relative Timestamp

Recompute the relative timestamp on an interval by passing an interval argument (in milliseconds).

{{format-relative now interval=1000}} -> now, 1 second ago, 2 seconds ago, etc. (will recompute every 1s)

Format Relative Options

List of supported format date options

Format Message

Formats ICU message syntax strings with the provided values passed as arguments to the helper/method.

Template Helper

# en-us.yml
banner: "You have {numPhotos, plural, =0 {no photos.} =1 {one photo.} other {# photos.}}"

{{t 'banner' numPhotos=3}}

Service API

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  intl: Ember.inject.service(),
  count: 0,
  label: Ember.computed('intl.locale', 'count', function() {
    let { count, intl } = this.getProperties('intl', 'count');

    return intl.t('banner', { numPhotos: count });
  }).readOnly()
});

Formatting a raw ICU message

This is done by using the {{l}} (lowercase L) helper as a subexpression. This is useful for computed properties where you are programmatically constructing a translation string.

Template Helper

{{format-message
  (l "{name} took {numPhotos, plural,
      =0 {no photos}
      =1 {one photo}
      other {# photos}
    } on {timestamp, date, long}"
  )
  name=user.username
  numPhotos=num
  timestamp=yesterday
}}

Service API

export default Ember.Component.extend({
  intl: Ember.inject.service(),
  count: 0,
  label: Ember.computed('intl.locale', 'count', function() {
    let { count, intl } = this.getProperties('intl', 'count');

    return intl.formatMessage(`
      You took {numPhotos, plural,
        =0 {no photos}
        =1 {one photo}
        other {# photos}
      }`, {
      numPhotos: count
     });
  }).readOnly()
});

Format HTML Message

Escapes all hash arguments and returns as an htmlSafe String which renders an ElementNode. To enable rendering HTML within translations, pass an htmlSafe attribute to the t helper.

{{t 'product.html.info'
  htmlSafe=true
  price=model.price
  product=model.name
  deadline=model.saleEndsOn
}}

{{format-html-message (l '<strong>{numPhotos}</strong>') numPhotos=(format-number num)}}

Named Formats

Specifying format options (e.g.: style="currency" currency="USD") in every use of format helper can become a problem in large code bases, and isn't DRY. Instead, you can provide named formats through the use of exporting a POJO from app/formats. All helpers accept a format property which accepts a key that maps to the format option under its respected type (time, date, number, relative).

For example:

// app/formats.js
export default {
  date: {
    hhmmss: {
      hour:   'numeric',
      minute: 'numeric',
      second: 'numeric'
    }
  }
};

{{format-date 'Thu Jan 23 2014 13:00:44' format='hhmmss'}}

this.get('intl').formatDate('Thu Jan 23 2014 13:00:44', {
  format: 'hhmmss'
})

Output of both the helper and the programmatic example:

1:00:44 PM

Helper Options

• All helpers accept optional arguments:
  • locale argument to explicitly pass/override the application locale
  • format argument which you pass in a key corresponding to a format configuration in app/formats.js

Writing Unit Tests

Phantom does support the Intl API, so in order for ember-intl to work in a browser which does not support the Intl API, it needs to be polyfilled.

To resolve this, add the following above all script tags in tests/index.html:

<script src="{{rootURL}}assets/intl/intl.complete.js"></script>

Asynchronously loading translations

Asynchronously loading translations instead of bundling translations within app.js are fully-supported as of 2.x.
https://github.com/ember-intl/ember-intl/blob/2.x/docs/asynchronously-loading-translations.md

Testing with ember-intl

• Unit testing
• Integration testing

Common Errors

date value is not finite in DateTimeFormat.format()

Browser vendors implement date/time parsing differently. For example, the following will parse correctly in Chrome but fail in Firefox: new Intl.DateTimeFormat().format('2015-04-21 20:47:31 GMT');

The solution is the ensure that the value you are passing in is in a format which is valid for the Date constructor. This library currently does not try and normalize date strings outside of what the browser already implements.

Running

• ember server
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Running Tests

• ember test
• ember test --server