feat(i18n): internationalize the app and support mutiple languages - #55
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Adds src/i18n/ with the three-field locale resolver, a multi-subscriber store read through useSyncExternalStore, and the base catalog whose key union every later catalog is checked against. useLocale stamps the resolved language tag and direction on the document element, CityTable subscribes once and builds the table labels in a memo keyed on the catalog and the tag, and a lint rule keeps the shared components from reaching the locale layer at all.
…e header picker The three catalogs beside the base one, each declared with satisfies so a missing or misspelled key fails the type check. The pseudo-locale derives every entry from the base rather than committing transformed literals, and takes its direction from the right-to-left convention and its readability and padding from the left-to-right one. A native select in the header offers the machine first and then each catalog by its own autonym, and choosing one repaints the table below it.
…ted rules The blocking inline script now resolves the locale the same way the module does and stamps lang and dir alongside the theme, so a right-to-left reader gets no left-to-right frame. The theme's vocabulary gains a value-level tuple the hook's stored-choice check and the new guard both read, the shared teardown resets both new attributes, and a parity guard parses the script and each resolver and fails when the two copies of either rule stop agreeing.
Following the reader's locale makes the previous headline statement false as written: a link naming a sort opens in a different row order for a reader who collates differently, and the population column reads a different string depending on who opened it. Measured over the committed 50,250 rows, collating under Spanish instead of the current default moves 3,081 positions. The statement is now that one address is one view, per resolved locale, with the reason locale stays out of the address written beside it: putting it there would force the sender's language on the recipient and make it part of the table's view state. The four invariants are unchanged, so the query string keeps its four keys. Written in the README's shareable-links section and in the comment above the single writer, which are the two places a reader meets the design.
…ccount The address design had four invariants and no machine check of any of them. The single writer, the absence of a push, the guarded write and the omitted defaults were prose plus behavior tests that would still pass beside a second writer nobody noticed. Three questions, all asked of constructs rather than of tokens. Whether anything under src/ other than the one component mutates history, whether the query string still owns exactly q, sort, page and size, and whether every document a reader consults for the design still says the same thing about what a link reproduces. A fifth schema entry for the locale is what the key-set assertion exists to catch. The prose half reads the generated project instructions and the codebase map when they are present and skips them when they are not, because this repository keeps both out of version control and a fresh clone was never given them. A count of the committed documents keeps that tolerance from emptying the loop. normalizeComment now strips line-comment markers as well as block ones, so a passage carried in a run of slashes normalizes to the same prose the markdown does. That also strengthens the provenance absence assertion, which previously read past a copy pasted back in as line comments.
The three platform locale objects the tree needs are now functions of the resolved tag rather than constants, held one per tag in module-scope maps whose ceiling is the catalog count. Building one inside a comparison would build roughly eight hundred thousand of them for a single sort of the full dataset, and the per-value formatting helper has the same shape of cost one per rendered cell. The two woven sentences in all four catalogs now group their counts through the number formatter and select their nouns over the categories the tag itself reports. Spanish and French report three each where English reports two, and French puts zero in the singular, so a pair keyed on the count is silently wrong in half the catalogs that ship. Each catalog declares a total record over its own tag's categories, so there is no fallback arm to reach. The catalog test calls every catalog with a count drawn from each of its categories and reads the sentences for a hole, which is what makes the narrowing in selectPlural sound.
compareValues takes the collator as a parameter and holds none of its own. The collator is fused into the column comparator at construction, where the accessor already is, so the sort module, its hook and the table's prop surface are untouched. The column array is rebuilt per locale anyway for its labels and its number format, which makes it the natural carrier. The parameter has no default on purpose. A default would be the locale-less collator this work exists to remove, and it would hide a call site from the source guard that keeps every platform locale construction in one module. A collator handed in is a value, so the component layer's dependency set is unchanged. cityColumns becomes buildCityColumns: labels out of the catalog, the population cell through the cached number formatter rather than the value's own per-call helper, and one build at module scope kept only so the column id union and the closed set still derive from the columns rather than being declared beside them. CityTable builds it in a memo keyed on the same catalog and tag the labels memo uses, because an array whose identity moved on a render where the labels did not would re-sort fifty thousand rows for nothing. The identity tiebreak stays plain text and says why: it decides every pair a column left tied, so collating it would let the same data come out in two orders for two readers with every visible value equal.
Every non-test module under src/, plus the inline script, is parsed and its locale call sites counted: a construction of an internationalization namespace constructor, or a call to a value-level helper such as toLocaleString or localeCompare. The set of files holding one has to be exactly the formatter module, and that module has to still build all three cached instances, so the guard cannot pass on a formatter module whose caches were deleted. Parsed rather than searched, which matters twice here. A namespace named in a block comment is not a call site, and this guard would be worthless if the paragraph explaining why the rule exists could fail it. A type annotation naming the same constructor is not one either, which is what lets the comparator declare a collator parameter it never constructs. Test files are excluded on purpose: a test asserting a formatted string has to compute the expectation through the platform rather than type it, because the French group separator is a narrow no-break space.
…ted counts The caption now groups its count on the resolved tag, so three specs asserting an ungrouped one went red. Both expectations are computed through the platform rather than retyped, which is the same rule the unit suite follows: the separator is invisible in a terminal, so a hand-written one fails on a difference nobody can read. The runner's locale is stated rather than inherited, beside the colour scheme that was already stated for the same reason. The application follows the reader's preference list now, so on a machine preferring French every string these specs assert would arrive translated and every count would carry a different separator. That is a coincidence the suite should not rest on.
The labels object grows from five entries to everything DataTable renders: the error sentence, the retry action, both sort announcements, the caption's unsorted phrase and sort summary, and a nested pagination slice typed by a new PaginationLabels. The two composers that used to build grammar now read it. One appended letters to the sort direction token to make a word, which is a word in exactly one language; the other interpolated the same token into a sentence. Both take the direction as a value and let each catalog spell the pair out. DataTableProps takes errorMessage rather than an error object, so the component tier renders text instead of narrowing a failure, and a preserved cause has no path to the screen. CityTable forwards it and App passes the current error's message. All thirteen new strings land in the four catalogs at once: the union derived from the base makes a missing key a compile error rather than an undefined at a reader.
…s props Pagination takes the nested slice DataTable hands it, unspread and unreshaped, and reads all seven of its strings out of it. Each of the four page controls names itself from one catalog entry used twice, once as the tooltip and once as the accessible name, so a translation cannot move one and leave the other behind. The page label goes through a catalog function that groups both numbers on the resolved tag. SearchInput takes a labels object in place of its fixed accessible name and its placeholder prop. The name still describes what the control does rather than what it searches; that reason held while the only thing varying was the caller, and stops holding once the language varies too. The French page-size label carries the narrow no-break space French typography puts before a colon, written as an escape behind a named constant so a reviewer reads the requirement rather than a space that looks like a stray character.
…ponent layer The layer's other two rules are lint rules over imports, and a hardcoded sentence needs no import, so neither of them would have caught one. This parses each component and collects JSX text carrying a letter plus string literals on aria-label, title, placeholder and alt, then asserts the set is empty. Parsed rather than searched, which is this file's standard and is load-bearing here: every component in that directory carries paragraphs explaining itself, and a guard that goes red on the explanation of a rule is a guard that gets deleted rather than obeyed. The aria-sort values and a live region's politeness setting are deliberately outside the attribute set. Assistive technology matches on both, so translating either would break the feature rather than localize it; they are English because the specification is.
The loader now throws a dataset error carrying a stable code and a numeric detail alongside its existing English message, which stays as the developer-facing text, and keeps its preserved cause. The application layer turns the code into a sentence chosen from a total record in each of the four catalogs, so there is no fallback arm and no uncovered branch, and nothing from the message or the cause reaches the screen. The translation happens during render rather than at the container's catch. That catch lives inside the fetch effect, so reading the catalog there would put the locale in the effect's dependency array and changing the language while a failure was on screen would re-download the dataset to say the same thing in another language. The data module still imports nothing but its own asset. The failure vocabulary reaches the rest of the tree through the API seam, which is the loader's only consumer.
The page heading, the theme control's three option names and its group name, the language picker's own name and the option naming the machine, the render-failure fallback and its recovery action, and the footer's attribution sentence all come from the catalog now. The English wording is byte-identical to what it replaced, so the accessibility, browser and end-to-end suites pass unedited. The boundary that catches a render-time throw is a class, because that is the only render-fallback mechanism React offers, so it cannot read a hook. It takes its two strings as props and the layout above it is the locale subscriber that supplies them. The footer's sentence is one catalog entry rather than three fragments around two links. Three would hold every language to English word order, and the pseudo-locale exists partly to make a sentence assembled out of several entries visible as several bracketed units. The source name, the license identifier and both addresses stay untranslated: they are identifiers, not copy, and the license still obliges all four of credit, source, license and modification in every language.
The five physical inline-axis declarations in this tree become their logical equivalents, so one stylesheet serves both directions and there is no override sheet or post-processor to keep in step: the search icon's offset and the input's reserved inset move together onto the inline axis, both cell separators become an inline-end border, and the theme control's automatic margin and its two separator hairlines become inline-start. The four page glyphs mirror under a right-to-left document through one rule on the direction attribute. Not the :dir() pseudo-class, which landed in Chrome 120 against this application's floor of 111, and not a branch in the component, because flex reverses where the buttons sit and never what the glyphs point at. Three guards in the toolchain suite: no stylesheet under src declares an inline-axis physical property, no SCSS selector uses the pseudo-class, and no conditional in the pagination component has an element on both branches. A test rather than a lint rule, because the standard configuration in use carries none and the plugin that does is a new dependency for five declarations.
The real-engine sweep gains a right-to-left state, reached by operating the language picker rather than by setting the attribute, and swept for accessibility violations like the other three. Beside it are the assertions jsdom cannot make: all five rewritten declarations read back as the engine resolved them, the four page controls' resolved edges running from the reading start, and the mirrored glyph transform. Reverting any one of the five, or removing the mirror rule, turns the sweep red. The scroll container is checked at a narrow viewport, which the sweep sets and restores, because it only exists below 768px and the project runs at a desktop size on purpose. Reachability rather than a scroll offset: that offset runs negative under this direction in a standards-compliant engine, and nothing in this tree reads one. The pre-paint spec is extended rather than duplicated, so both stamps are proved by one aborted reload. It now chooses a language as well as a theme, confirms both reached storage, and asserts the language tag and the direction alongside the two theme properties. Neutering the locale half of the blocking script makes it fail.
The README gains an internationalization section: what ships, why nothing was installed for it, and what the catalogs deliberately do not reach. The library answer carries the numbers rather than an opinion. Three general-purpose libraries were weighed against the compressed script this application actually ships, and they add between roughly a sixth and a third again of it to render forty-odd strings that never leave this repository. The measurement carries its date, so a reader can rerun the build and check it. Two ceilings are written down. City and country names stay in their source form in every locale, because the dataset carries a name and an ascii name and nothing else; translating them is a data pipeline rather than an internationalization change. And the static head of the document is served before any module can run, so no catalog can reach it. The first is stated twice on purpose, in the README a reader evaluating the project opens and on the city type a reader of the code is already looking at. A guard holds the pair from one literal, in the idiom the provenance account already uses, so rewording either alone is a red test. Both constraint documents record the logical-property rule, the attribute selector behind the glyph mirror and why it is not the pseudo-class, and point at the README for the ceilings rather than restating them a third time.
The footer already records this reasoning for the source and licence names it renders. The header carried the same kind of literal with nothing beside it saying so, which reads as an oversight rather than a decision.
A raw bidirectional control character in source is the shape a hidden-character attack takes, so a scanner flags it and is right to. The escape is the same string at runtime and a visible one to a reviewer, which is what the file wanted in the first place.
The failure vocabulary is re-exported straight from the data module rather than imported and exported again. The footer's link parts are keyed by their own text, since the split alternates a run of text with an identifier and a translation is free to move where each one sits. The catalog id guard asks the tuple with includes. Two call-count assertions use toHaveLength, so a failure reports both numbers.
The pseudo-locale paragraph and the library section were written in negations and closed on a flourish. Same facts, stated once and straight, in the README and in the catalog's own header.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR adds locale selection, translated catalogs, locale-aware formatting, localized error text, and RTL support. It updates shared component contracts, stamps ChangesInternationalization and locale-aware application flow
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In `@src/i18n/datasetErrorText.test.ts`:
- Around line 50-54: Update the unexpected-error strings in the en, es, and fr
catalogs to end with periods, and change the datasetErrorText test assertion to
expect “An unexpected error occurred.”; leave the pseudo catalog unchanged
because it delegates to en.
In `@src/i18n/localeStore.ts`:
- Around line 61-64: Update handleStorage to call readStoredChoice and notify
when event.key is either LOCALE_STORAGE_KEY or null, so localStorage.clear()
events refresh the locale choice. Add a test covering a null StorageEvent key
and verifying the stored choice is re-read and listeners are notified.
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In `@src/toolchain.test.ts`:
- Around line 349-367: Update the filename exclusion check in findSourceFiles to
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A storage event carrying a null key is a clear() rather than a write, and it takes the stored choice with it. Both stores that listen were reading the key alone and so kept a choice that no longer existed. The theme store had the same defect and is fixed with it, since one of the two left alone is the one that gets found later. The unexpected-error sentence gains the terminal period the other eight already had, in all three catalogs. The source walk in the toolchain guard stops treating a type test as application code; it is in neither walk now, and the comment says why. The README drops the section arguing against an internationalization library, and its usage examples catch up with the code they describe: the column array and the label object are built per locale rather than held at module scope, and neither sample teaches the per-call locale helper the toolchain guard rejects.
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- Around line 170-184: Update the README’s city-column example and BASE_COLUMNS
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Both showed a few entries of a longer list and read as if that were the list. Each now says how many of how many, and points at the module that holds all of them.
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Added i18n: English, Spanish, French & a pseudo-RTL
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