Lingui Best Practices

Lingui is a powerful internationalization (i18n) framework for JavaScript. This skill covers best practices for implementing i18n in React and vanilla JavaScript applications.

Quick Start Workflow

The standard Lingui workflow consists of these steps:

1. Wrap your app in I18nProvider
2. Mark messages for translation using macros (Trans, t, etc.)
3. Extract messages: lingui extract
4. Translate the catalogs
5. Compile catalogs: lingui compile
6. Load and activate locale in your app

Core Packages

Import from these packages: