London Calling: Creating a customisable, multi-tenanted i18n solution
summary
Buycraft serves ~500,000 Minecraft webstores and has handled 16 million payments across 255 countries so a bespoke i18n layer is built: JSON locale files per store with inheritance, DB loading merged into cached arrays to avoid repeated queries, readable placeholders, full plural rules borrowed from Drupal plural parser, and a custom CloudFlare Lua cache key so cached pages respect language cookies. Merchants add translations and payment integrations directly and 300 stores day one adopt custom strings, proving it works.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 8:22Restricted Language Set
- 9:18Only Supports Default Strings
- 10:11High Maintenance Cost
- 22:01Requirements
- 23:09Plural Rules
- 26:06Drucal to the rescue
- 27:38Default Translation
- 35:29Merge and Cache
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