I've been trying to find more interesting ways to handle localization -- what we're currently doing is using graphql to query for each bit of text -- Has anyone written on how you'd do it in a pure language? Also if anyone's written something more holistic that combines "localized text" and "localized prices" / marketing text and db models I'd be interested. So far everything seems to get about this far:

var greeting = i18n.__('Hello');

and stops there as localization is "solved" 😛

I'm guessing you've read this but the example you posted suggests maybe not so posting https://metacpan.org/pod/Locale::Maketext::TPJ13

i18n.__('Hello')

suggests to me that the strategy here is the "`gettext`" way in which the translations are extracted from the codebase then replaced in runtime, and key of a translation is a original string in the

en

version of it.

ah yeah,

i18n.__('Hello')

was just a reference to the

gettext

approach, which I've run into most frequently. I'm looking for more interesting approaches. the full approach we're using is Contentful -> Graphql query to get all our text -> it's loaded into the cache -> react hooks that query the graphql cache at the component level to get specific text, looks kind of like

const text = useText('section.heading.hello')