Introduction

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You don't have to use wxt to use this package - it will work in any bundler setup. See Installation without WXT for more details.

@wxt-dev/i18n is a simple, type-safe wrapper around the browser.i18n APIs. It provides several benefits over the standard API:

1. Simple messages file format
2. Plural form support
3. Integrates with the I18n Ally VS Code extension

It also provides several benefits over other non-web extension specific i18n packages:

1. Does not bundle localization files into every entrypoint
2. Don't need to fetch the localization files asynchronously
3. Can localize extension name in manifest
4. Can access localized strings inside CSS files

However, it does have one major downside:

1. Like the browser.i18n API, to change the language, users must change the browser's language