browser-lang
Detect user's most preferred language within the given language list.Why?
- To determine aninitial display language
or default language router
on your application with fallback options.Inspiration
- I madeen
and ko
router to support i18n. How do I detect user's preferred language in browser?
- My app only supports en
and ko
for now. What language should I display when zh
users visit us?
- I added fr
router. But, how do I handle fr_FR
and fr_CA
users as well?Installation
npm install browser-lang --save
or
yarn add browser-lang
Options
- languages:
- fallback:
Example
in javascript project// const browserLang = require('browser-lang');
import browserLang from 'browser-lang';
const myLanguage = browserLang();
// return the preferred language in browser: e.g. "ko-KR" or "ko".
const myLanguage = browserLang({
languages: ['ko', 'de', 'zh', 'zh_TW', 'en'],
fallback: 'en',
});
// return "ko" if the preferred language in browser is set to "ko-KR" or "ko".
// return "en" as a fallback if the preferred language in browser is "fr".
// return 'zh' if the preferred language in browser is set to "zh_HK".
Browser support
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Safari
- IE
- Edge
- Opera