i18next instance (v9)

The instance is an initialized i18next instance. In the following code snippet, we add a backend to load translations from server and a language detector for detecting user language.

You can learn more about i18next and plugins on the i18next website.

The instance could be passed to the I18nextProvider or directly to the translate hoc.

The reactI18nextModule used below is an alternative to using the I18nextProvider and asserts that components (render prop, hoc) lower in the element tree get access to the i18n instance.

import i18n from 'i18next';
import XHR from 'i18next-xhr-backend';
import LanguageDetector from 'i18next-browser-languagedetector';
import { reactI18nextModule } from 'react-i18next';


i18n
  .use(XHR)
  .use(LanguageDetector)
  .use(reactI18nextModule) // if not using I18nextProvider
  .init({
    fallbackLng: 'en',
    debug: true,

    interpolation: {
      escapeValue: false, // not needed for react!!
    },

    // react i18next special options (optional)
    react: {
      wait: false,
      bindI18n: 'languageChanged loaded',
      bindStore: 'added removed',
      nsMode: 'default'
    }
  });


export default i18n;

All additional options for react in init options:

options	default	description
wait	false	assert all provided namespaces are loaded before rendering the component (can be set globally too); note that rendering will not be blocked again when dynamically updating ns on the render prop component after initial mount
nsMode	'default'	default: namespaces will be loaded an the first will be set as default or fallback: namespaces will be used as fallbacks used in order provided
bindI18n	'languageChanged loaded'	which events trigger a rerender, can be set to false or string of events
bindStore	'added removed'	which events on store trigger a rerender, can be set to false or string of events

For more initialization options have look at the docs.