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# With Lingui example

## How to use

### Using `create-next-app`

Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/segmentio/create-next-app) with [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/) or [npx](https://github.com/zkat/npx#readme) to bootstrap the example:

```bash
npx create-next-app --example with-lingui with-lingui-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-lingui with-lingui-app
```

### Download manually

Download the example:

```bash
curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-lingui
cd with-lingui
```

Install it and run:

```bash
npm install
npm run dev
# or
yarn
yarn dev
```

Deploy it to the cloud with [now](https://zeit.co/now) ([download](https://zeit.co/download))

```bash
now
```

## The idea behind the example

This example shows a way to use [lingui.js](https://lingui.js.org) with next.js.

It adds a webpack loader for the messages to avoid having to manually compile while developing as well as adds the compile step to the `next build` script for production builds.

The example also uses a Higher order Component which can be added to all pages which will be translated and that checks for a `?lang` query string switch the language. Next.js  will dynamically load in the messages for the locale when navigating using a Next.js `<Link />` component.

### How to add more translated strings

To add new strings use the [react component](https://lingui.js.org/tutorials/react-patterns.html#common-i18n-patterns-in-react) `<Trans />` and then run `yarn export` to export the messages into `locale/{language}/messages.po`.

### How to add another language

To add another language simply run `yarn add-locale <locale ...>` and it will create a new locale in the `locale/messages/` directory.