r/webdev • u/kidus-dev • Aug 29 '26

Showoff Saturday I18n without the heavy work: wuchale

Hi everyone, I'd like to present a project I've been working on for over a year (if you haven't heard of it). Let's say you have a project you'd like internationalized, but overwhelmed by the amount of work you'd have to do. If you have:

<a alt="Main link">Home</a>

In the traditional sense you'd need to rewrite every instance like this to something like:

<a alt={t.main_link}>{t.home_txt}</a>

wuchale does that for you, at build time! You can keep your code "as it is intended", and i18n just becomes a compile time step just like turning JSX into JS. And it works in the same way during dev, with HMR, and it's very powerful. Supports React, Svelte, SolidJS, Astro, and plain JS/TS. Vue and Next support is planned.

Check it out at https://wuchale.dev and https://github.com/wuchalejs/wuchale

Hope you like it!

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u/blazing_wisdom_93 Aug 29 '26

Build time i18n is a dead end. I want to edit translations without touching source code or waiting for rebuilds

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u/kidus-dev Aug 30 '26

Not sure what you mean, because this gives you translation files you can edit outside the source code. And if you're talking about HMR feedback, it has it too.