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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

You're reading from   Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby Practical guide to building performant, accessible, and interactive web apps with React and Gatsby.js 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209091
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samuel Larsen-Disney Samuel Larsen-Disney
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: An Overview of Gatsby.js for the Uninitiated FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Styling Choices and Creating Reusable Layouts 4. Chapter 3: Sourcing and Querying Data (from Anywhere!) 5. Chapter 4: Creating Reusable Templates 6. Chapter 5: Working with Images 7. Part 2: Going Live
8. Chapter 6: Improving Your Site's Search Engine Optimization 9. Chapter 7: Testing and Auditing Your Site 10. Chapter 8: Web Analytics and Performance Monitoring 11. Chapter 9: Deployment and Hosting 12. Part 3: Advanced Concepts
13. Chapter 10: Creating Gatsby Plugins 14. Chapter 11: Creating Authenticated Experiences 15. Chapter 12: Using Real-Time Data 16. Chapter 13: Internationalization and Localization 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Providing locale translations for single-instance pages

For static pages, we will need a different approach to providing translations. For any strings that require translation we can no longer have the values in line with our JSX. A very common approach is to use react-i18next, which has a great hook called useTranslation that allows you to switch strings out depending on the locale. Let's use this now to translate content on our index page for site visitors:

  1. Open a terminal at your root directory and add these new dependencies:
    npm install gatsby-theme-i18n-react-i18next react-
    i18next i18next

    Here, we are installing the gatsby-theme-i18n-react-i18next package and its dependencies. This package is a Gatsby theme plugin that provides locale support to our application by wrapping our site in react-i18next's context provider. Underneath the hood, this package wraps the site by using wrapPageElement in the gatsby-browser.js in the same way we did in Chapter 12, Using Real...

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