Laravel 5 package that allows you to share your Laravel localizations with your vue front-end, using vue-i18n.

In your project: composer require martinlindhe/laravel-vue-i18n-generator

In config/app.php providers:

MartinLindhe\VueInternationalizationGenerator\GeneratorProvider::class,

Next, publish the package default config:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="MartinLindhe\VueInternationalizationGenerator\GeneratorProvider"

Then generate the include file with

php artisan vue-i18n:generate

Assuming you are using a recent version of vue-i18n, adjust your vue app with something like:

import Vue from 'vue';
import VueInternalization from 'vue-i18n';
import Locales from './vue-i18n-locales.generated.js';

Vue.use(VueInternalization);

Vue.config.lang = 'en';

Object.keys(Locales).forEach(function (lang) {
  Vue.locale(lang, Locales[lang])
});

...

For older vue-i18n, the initialization looks something like:

import Vue from 'vue';
import VueInternationalization from 'vue-i18n';
import Locales from './vue-i18n-locales.generated.js';

Vue.use(VueInternationalization, {
    lang: 'en',
    locales: Locales
});

...

If you want to generate an UMD style export, you can with the --umd option

php artisan vue-i18n:generate --umd

An UMD module can be imported into the browser, build system, node and etc.

Now you can include the generated script in the browser as a normal script and reference it with window.vuei18nLocales.

<script src="{{ asset('js/vue-i18n-locales.generated.js') }}"></script>

// in your js 
Vue.use(VueI18n)
Vue.config.lang = Laravel.language
Object.keys(window.vuei18nLocales).forEach(function (lang) {
  Vue.locale(lang, window.vuei18nLocales[lang])
})

You can still require/import it in your build system as stated above.

One advantage of doing things like this is you are not obligated to do a build of your javascript each time a the translation files get changed/saved. A good example is if you have a backend that can read and write to your translation files (like Backpack). You can listen to a save event there and call vue-i18n-generator.

The generator adjusts the strings in order to work with vue-i18n's named formatting, so you can reuse your Laravel translations with parameters.

resource/lang/message.php:

return [
    'hello' => 'Hello :name',
];

in vue-i18n-locales.generated.js:

...
    "hello": "Hello {name}",
...

Blade template:

<div class="message">
    <p>{{ trans('message.hello', ['name' => 'visitor']) }}</p>
</div>

Vue template:

<div class="message">
    <p>{{ $t('message.hello', {name: 'visitor'}) }}</p>
</div>

The generated file is an ES6 module.

Pluralization don't work with vue-i18n

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