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Advent Of Vue 2022

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Problem Description

Use Vue I18n to create a localized "Happy Holidays" greeting and cycle through some locales. Then, print how many days until Christmas 😊... in 🇯🇵, 🇩🇪, and 🇺🇸!

Translations are provided, though you can add your own!

Completed App

Task List + Hints

• Localize "Happy Holidays" using Vue i18n.
• Setup a cycle, radio button, or other way of changing what the current locale is.
• Render the current locale.
• Render a flag emoji or icon for each locale.
• Use the Vue i18n date function to localize the date object for "Christmas".
• Render the number of days until Christmas.
• Localize the number of days until Christmas (days).
• Localize the entire christmasIsComing string with the date and time values to include joining particles ("{ date } is in { time }" or "{date}はあと{time}" -- notice there are no spaces in Japanese 🤔)
• Style the time part of the christmasIsComing string. (Hint: use i18n-t and the slot syntax)

Libraries and Structure

You'll be editing App.vue. You don't really need anything below except for Vue i18n.

1. We're using Vue i18n for localization. Vue i18n docs are here
2. Locales are provided within the locales directory.
3. Messages are loaded within main.js for you.
4. Each *.json file maps to a locale.
5. If you want to add your own language, you can!
6. Check out the Vite config if you'd like to see how that works.
7. VueUse is included. I ended up using it in the final solution, but it's not necessary.

VSCode Setup

1. Using the VSCode plugin i18n Ally is suggested -- it displays your translations inside of your editor!

   

2. This project is using Icones + UnoCSS for icons.

3. Try out the VSCode Plugin Iconify IntelliSense

   

4. This allows you to use fancy icons... but you can also just use emojis :P

When IS Christmas?

1. No date library is provided. No one likes timezone issues, so a correct way to initialize "Christmas Day" is like so: new Date('2022/12/25').
2. Fun fact: If you were to switch / for -, it would stop using your local timezone! StackOverflow "Date is off-by-one" issue

Author

Jessica Sachs (Jess)

Credits

Based on a Stackblitz project by tony19