Why Two Mi18n?

I came with the idea of this library while developing qrcode-prevention, a tiny single static site to warn people about the risks of QR codes. I wanted to make it available in multiple languages, and I wanted to make it easy to add new languages. Since this project was really small, I didn’t wanted to install a huge i18n library.

Inspiration

I wanted the library to work client side and to be as small as possible. Mainly taking inspiration on AlpineJS.

The idea

The main idea was using the data-twomi18n attribute to mark the elements that need to be translated. Then, the library would replace the content of the element with the translation.

After doing some research, I found simple-translator that was using the exact technique I wanted to use to translte HTML. But it was a bit too big for my needs.

So I decided to write my own library, and here it is.