#1418·i18next

Q: Have you considered locale specific bundles?

Author: danielkczCreated Apr 2, 2020Updated Mar 21, 2026
Labelsfeature requesthelp wanted

I am sorry if I missed this somewhere, I am pretty much new to i18next. I am coming over from LinguiJS which is a neat framework but given its work of a single person, it's growing very slowly, basically stopped now.

There is the RFC for per-locale bundles which ultimately means bundles with minimal to none runtime footprint of localization library. Given that i18next is roughly over 15kB (min+gzip, including React bindings), it would be a significant improvement in my opinion.

Probably best if you read through that RFC, I don't think I can add anything more here as I don't know exact internals of i18next. Would it be something you would consider working on? Do you think it would be even possible?