Message Format

A utility to format string messages. It is influenced by Java's MessageFormat class and support most of its functionality.

Usage

Install the package using npm as shown below

npm install --save msg-format

You can import the MessageFormat class and use it as shown below

String

const text = 'I am {0}!!!';
const name = 'Groot';
console.info(MessageFormat.format(text, name)); // I am Groot!!!

// or

const text = 'I am {0}!!!I am {1}';
const name = 'Groot';
const state = 'hungry';
console.info(MessageFormat.format(text, name, state)); // I am Groot!!!I am hungry

// or

const text = 'I am {0}!!!I am {1}';
const name = 'Groot';
const state = 'hungry';
console.info(MessageFormat.format(text, [name, state])); // I am Groot!!!I am hungry

Date/Time

const date = new Date();
console.info(MessageFormat.format('Current time: {0, time}', date)); // Current time: 16:32
console.info(MessageFormat.format('Today: {0, date}', date)); // Today: 21/07/2018

Localization

import { MessageFormat, MessageLocale } from 'msg-format';

const date = new Date();
console.info(MessageFormat.format('Today is: {0, date, EEEE}', date)); // Today is: Sunday
console.info(MessageFormat.formatWithLocale('Aujourd\'hui est {0, date, EEEE}. Bonjour {1}', MessageLocale.fr_FR, date, 'John Doe')); // Aujourd'hui est Dimanche. Bonjour John Doe

MessageLocale

Below is the table with all the supported locale in this library. You can get all the mentioned values from MessageLocale object.

| Language | Code | | --- | --- | | English | en_GB | | French | fr_FR | | German | de_DE | | Simplified Chinese | zh_CN | | Russian | ru_RU | | Arabic | ar_SA | | Japanese | ja_JP |