💁🏻‍♂️ Feedback and suggestions about localization within Firebase

In 2020, localization is not an option anymore

It’s a first-class feature that is required in almost every project.

I know that firebase is free, but still… I’m paying for services due to my usage. I think this would be a great thing for both firebase platform and users to be able to translate this module correctly. You’ll reach more developers and we would be even happier to build apps 😉

This is not something very hard I guess when we know the technical level of people like @CodingDoug @jenperson @ToddKerpelman and many others @ firebase (ping @nicolasgarnier).

Problem with current configuration

• Who is using UMD module in 2020 ?

I don’t think many people keep using the UMD CDN build, most people build their app using react/vue or even angular… (I’m sorry WordPress users 😅)

Everything gets packaged in something like webpack or rollup… ES6 / CommonJS is a need.

• Build time configuration is not adaptative

If you have a multi-localized app, it’s not scalable. You can’t even simply update the lib to leverage patches.

Simple Solution

• Let the library close to what it is currently, with English shipped, so the firebase team has only one language to maintain.
• Give the opportunity to pass a localized object with keys/values at instantiation, like we have signInFlow currently, we could have a translations which will be dynamically injected by us, depending on any context.

I would be very happy to help with that, but I think It would be quicker for me to rework all of this with react-js due to the complexity of the code here Ahah 😅 But even though, I can help on some parts (@nicolasgarnier if you need some help on react)

Best wishes for this Christmas,

Andréas

[barbalex]

I am developing an app for users in Switzerland, using firebase auth. I can configure email to arrive in German. But the Login pops up in English and that is not adjustable?

Somehow this makes me think that firebase auth could be the next service that Google will suddenly kill. It certainly does not look like it gets a lot of love.

Google may not have realized, but most of the world speaks other languages. In Switzerland we speak four (I myself three of them). And none of them is English.

So I guess I will have to use a different service.

[landsman]

Guys let’s do something with this, please. It’s a shame.

As I mentioned here: https://github.com/firebase/firebaseui-web-react/issues/21#issuecomment-987801917. The community can help, if you will prepare the battle plan 🙏