Using i18next to build a menu

Question

I have a page using i18next on node.

In the translation files, there are translations (duh) for various things (it's like a database for little helper snippets)

now i want to build a page, where the user can view them individually.

idea

i want to access the loaded xx-translation.json and make a (dropdown?) menu containing all the entries in one namespace

{
    "category": {
        "subcategory": {    // i want to get ["bla", "blu", "bli"] as result
            "bla"    : "ble",
            "blu"    : "blo",
            "bli"    : "bly"
        }
    }
}

i'm thinking about a simple loop like

var amountOfEntries = translationJSON.category.subcategory.length;
for (var i = 0; i < amountOfEntries; i++) {
    $('#menu').   //append that entry somehow
}

tldr questions

is there a way to access the translation.json inside my "normal" js and count the number of entries? and how can i build a menu piece by piece with the entries? (this is bonus, i think i'd manage to do that. the main question is the first one)

thanks

Answer 1

Check out lodash.js for some good collection utility functions. You can iterate over the object with something like:

_.each(subcategory, function(val, key){
    $(".menu").append("<li>" + key + ": " + val + "</li>");
});

is that helpful?

UPDATE

After clarifying your question in the comments above, I think what you're looking for is either getResource() or getResourceBundle() .