Text Processing with JavaScript

Recipe 16

Creating Language-Sensitive Lists with Intl.ListFormat()

Task

Let’s say you have a gaming app and want to display the top three players of the week based on their scores. Because your app is available in multiple languages, you need a function that can format the list automatically based on the user’s language preference. It’s fairly common to have a series of items like this stored in an array that you need to format as a sentence in different languages.

Solution

Use the Intl.ListFormat() constructor:

part_1/creating_lists/ListFormat_ex1.js

const topPlayers = ["Kraken", "Boss99", "Ninja"];
const msg = "Congratulations to this week's winners: ";

function getFormattedList(lang, arr) {
  const formatter = new ...