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Updates and research
index · 4 blogs · 18 updates2025-01-07 → 2025-12-15
the split ternary the essay opens on
1const gt = useGT()2return (4<>5<span>6<T> Dark Mode: </T>7</span>8<Button>{enabled ? gt('On') : gt('Off')}</Button>9</>10)
“This is not at all how the library was designed to be used.”
the rewrite — one<T>, one <Branch>1<T>2<span>Dark Mode:</span>3<Button>4<Branch branch={enabled.toString()}5true="On" false="Off" />6</Button>7</T>
Blogs
Guides and research from the team, newest first — the newest entry sits framed above.
datetitle / summary
2025-02-26How to Internationalize an AI chatbotBuild and deploy a fully translated AI chatbot in minutes using gt-nextBrian Lou2025-02-17Pluralization 101 in ReactBest practices for rendering plurals in a React web appArchie McKenzie2025-01-07Launching gt-nextThe easiest way to internationalize your Next.js appArchie McKenzieUpdates
Release notes for every package in the toolchain — what shipped, and the line of reasoning behind it.
daterelease / change
2025-12-15gt-next@6.12.0declareStatic() — the string equivalent of <Static> — plus declareVar() and decodeVars(), for content scattered across services and utilities2025-12-09gt-next@6.11.0Adds $maxChars support to translation functions, building on formatCutoff() from generaltranslation@8.1.02025-12-06generaltranslation@8.1.0formatCutoff(): locale-aware text truncation that handles character limits with appropriate terminators per language2025-12-03gt-next@6.10.0Experimental cached component support via experimentalLocaleResolution; legacy static request functions deprecated2025-11-25gt-i18n@0.1.0A foundational step toward framework-agnostic JS internationalization: pure-JS logic split from framework-specific logic2025-11-18gt-next@6.9.0Static rendering: pre-rendered pages at build time. This behavior is deprecated — see gt-next@6.10.0 for the new behavior2025-11-14gt-react@10.8.0Feature flags through the enableI18n field — conditionally disable i18n, with sync and async loading patterns2025-11-10generaltranslation v8Significant API changes: branching introduced; unused endpoints deprecated. Older versions of the API are no longer supported2025-11-10gt-next@6.8.0The <Static> component: static function calls directly inside translations, preserving agreement, conjugation and word order2025-10-29generaltranslation@7.8.0formatListToParts() on the GT class and standalone: join arbitrary items, not just strings, into locale-aware lists2025-10-21Local Edits in gtx-cli@2.4.0Save local translation edits directly from the CLI and keep everything in sync without touching the dashboard2025-10-10compiler v1.0.0 + gt-next@6.7.0@general-translation/compiler v1.0.0 — build-time processing grown past the SWC plugin’s Next.js-only scope2025-09-18gt-next@6.6.0A new direction for brown-field apps: t.obj() returns translated dictionary structures2025-09-12gtx-cli@2.3.0Updated translate and upload behavior, with more visibility into the translation pipeline2025-09-10gt-next@6.4.0Locale aliasing: overwrite any canonical locale with an alias via the customMapping configuration2025-08-27gt-next@6.3.0msg() translates strings anywhere in your codebase — wrap once, pass through m() at render time2025-08-19gt-next@6.2.0Runtime work moves to build time via an SWC plugin: compile-time hashing, pre-rendered translations, stricter validation2025-01-26@generaltranslation/react-core-linter@0.1.0ESLint rules for React Core integration, catching common implementation errors seen in the wild