Support for Koa

Koa is a new framework using ES6 generator, by the creators of Express. There is however a small change in the api of middleware compared to Express. Instead of having Request and Responses objects, they’re using the this object, with similar data on the object. So the i18n.init middleware won’t work.

I wanted to write my own middleware, however the guessLanguage & applyAPItoObject functions are private, so it’s rather difficult. I was wondering if Koa support is planned, or if maybe both those functions could be exposed so that I could write some middleware for Koa.

[niftylettuce]

For anyone interested, @crocodilejs uses this package in the framework (which is Koa@next + ES7) https://github.com/crocodilejs/crocodile-node-mvc-framework, but written with some cool glue on top. I didn’t want to fork this because there are so many other i18n packages out there to confuse people with. But maybe I should?

Here’s the code for anyone interested:

https://github.com/crocodilejs/crocodile-node-mvc-framework/blob/294407e84a0d9c4377d0f9fe237b2a7278c6a028/src/helpers/i18n.js

Basically you do app.use(i18n.middleware); first, and then follow it with app.use(i18n.redirect); second. The latter is for locale support in URL’s though (it redirects from / to /en by default, or if you have /foo/bar it will redirect to the locale /en/foo/bar for example. CrocodileJS is set up for you automatically to handle this.

If anyone ends up looking into this, I recommend you join us in Slack for more discussion and insight into what we’re doing with CrocodileJS! http://slack.crocodilejs.com

Some screenshots of what we’re doing using this package below…

cc @mashpie 👍 thank you for making this ❤️ ✨ 🦄

[mashpie]

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