ES Modules

It is not possible to use this package in an ES module because of the use of __dirname in the code: https://github.com/mashpie/i18n-node/blob/v0.15.0/i18n.js#L125. What it be possible to use another approach?

Or export a file that can be used by a ES module project

[mashpie]

__dirname is CJS only while import.meta.url is ESM only. So i18n would need some transpiler to support both package types… eventually there’ll be major release for ESM only dropping CJS support as proposed by https://gist.github.com/sindresorhus/a39789f98801d908bbc7ff3ecc99d99c

For now you might try with explicitly setting directory instead of falling back to defaults, ie.:

import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
import path from 'node:path';
import { I18n } from 'i18n';

const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));

const i18n = new I18n({
  locales: ['en', 'de'],
  directory: path.join(__dirname, 'locales')
});

now you get back full control about your locales directory setting

[mashpie]

do you have a reproduction repo? I just tried both https://github.com/mashpie/i18n-esm-cjs-example and don’t get any errors