facebook/fbt
A JavaScript Internationalization Framework observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2954
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 658
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3881 stars · 177 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
FBT is a JavaScript internationalization framework from Facebook for composing grammatically correct translatable UI text. It uses Babel plugins to extract strings at build time and look up translation payloads at runtime.
Use cases
- internationalize a React web app
- translate UI strings into multiple languages
- handle grammatical variations in translated text
- collect translatable source strings automatically
- localize a React Native application
When to choose
- you need powerful i18n with grammatical variation support in JavaScript/React apps
- you want build-time string extraction via Babel
- you need a battle-tested framework used at scale by Facebook
When to avoid
- you need i18n outside the JavaScript/Node ecosystem
- you want a simple key-value translation setup without Babel tooling
- your project does not use a build pipeline like Babel/Webpack
Facets
framework · maturity active
internationalization frontend-framework templating web-development frontend browser cross-platform i18n translation babel-plugin react l10n localization nodejs javascript
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/facebook/fbt · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9d289a3ce6e9
- homepage: https://facebook.github.io/fbt · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6954e333767b
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/fbt · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9abfcbcf25ed
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| facebook/fbt | main | 10 |
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