i18next.com/pages/index.md

i18next website

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title: "i18next: internationalization ecosystem"
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i18next is a very popular internationalization library for browser or any other javascript environment (eg. node.js).

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**News**

Having done a big rewrite of i18next in spring we are proud to announce the next big step to get your webproject translated with less effort. We just released [locize](http://locize.com) a translation management system built around the i18next ecosystem.

With using [locize](http://locize.com) you directly support the future of i18next.

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i18next provides:

- Flexible connection to [backend](/docs/ecosystem/#backends) (loading translations via xhr, ...)
- Optional [caching](/docs/ecosystem/#caches), user [language detection](/docs/ecosystem/#languagedetector), ...
- Proper [pluralizations](/translate/pluralSimple/)
- Translation [context](/translate/context/)
- [Nesting](/translate/nesting/), [Variable replacement](/translate/interpolation/)
- Flexibility: prefer [keybased](/translate/) or [gettext](translate/keyBasedFallback/) style? No problem...
- Extensibility: eg. [sprintf](/docs/ecosystem/#postprocessors)
- Runs on modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, ... and IE >= 10; IE9 with es5 shim)
- Translation Management / Localization as a service provided by our [locize](http://locize.com) platform
- ...

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For more information visit:

- [Getting started](/docs/)
- [Translation Functionality](/translate/)
- [API](/docs/api/)
- [Migration Guide from v1.11.x](/docs/migration/)
- [Old v1.11.x Documentation](http://i18next.github.io/i18next/)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/i18next/i18next/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)

Latest Articles:

- [Translate my website — please!](https://medium.com/@jamuhl/translate-my-website-please-732ddb622cba#.f0sai4bfb).

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  <p>Our focus is providing the core for building a booming ecosystem. Independent of the building blocks you choose, be it react, angular or even good old jquery - proper translation capabilities are just <a href="/docs/ecosystem/#frameworks">one step away</a>.</p>
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**Important note to v3.0.0**

Please read the [changelog](https://github.com/i18next/i18next/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#300)

There is one breaking change regarding suffixing plurals in cases a language has multiple plural forms. Eg. arabic suffixes are now 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 instead of 0, 1, 2, 3, 11, 100. This change streamlines the suffix with the one used in gettext.
To enforce old behaviour you can enable `compatibilityJSON = 'v2'` on i18next init call.

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### download

Source can be loaded via [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/i18next), bower or [downloaded](https://github.com/i18next/i18next/blob/master/i18next.min.js) from this repo.


```bash
# npm
$ npm install i18next

# bower
$ bower install i18next
```

### Projects / Companys using i18next

<a href="https://enketo.org" class="projectlink" target="_blank"><img src="/img/projects/enketo.png" /></a>
<a href="http://www.viima.com" class="projectlink" target="_blank"><img src="/img/projects/viima-logo-vector.svg" style="height: 50px;top: -7px;margin-left:25px;position: relative;" /></a>
<a href="http://www.hubii.com" class="projectlink" target="_blank"><img src="/img/projects/Hubii_Logo_Horizontal_M.png" style="height: 50px;width:auto;margin-top: 1px;margin-left:25px;position: relative;" /></a>

Want to see your project or company here: Add it [here](https://github.com/i18next/i18next.com/blob/master/pages/index.md) and send a pull request.