Thursday
Room 4
17:40 - 18:40
(UTC+10)
Talk (60 min)
JavaScript apps go Int(ernationa)l
In a connected, global world there are a surprising number of problems with formatting text for our users. Did you know how many different ways there are to format a number? Or pluralise a noun? Or display a date? And let's not get into doing time zone maths for those dates. Internationalising an app by hand, and doing it correctly, could be a never-ending, full-time job.
The Intl namespace is home to the ECMAScript Internationalization API and contains the solutions to many of our formatting problems. In this talk we'll explore the available APIs that can make it easier to build a truly international application.
With Intl we can build apps that cater to all our users, wherever they are, however they write things down.
Phil Nash
Phil is a developer advocate for Sonar and Google Developer Expert. He's been in the web industry for 10 years building with JavaScript and Ruby. He can be found hanging out at meetups and conferences, playing with new technologies and APIs or writing open source code online. Sometimes he makes his own beer, but he's more likely to be found discovering new ones around the world.
Phil tweets at @philnash and you can find him elsewhere online at https://philna.sh.