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Locale-aware Number and Currency Condensing

1 post · Oct 2018

What this trail covers

Shopify has evolved its capabilities for locale-aware number and currency condensing. This involves developing a library that abbreviates numbers and currencies according to the user's locale, leveraging Unicode CLDR data and Intl.js. The library, named condense-number, was open-sourced on npm to help developers with international number formatting needs. It addresses challenges in multilingual environments where hardcoded abbreviations are insufficient, providing dynamic and accurate representations for graphs and other UI elements.

All Shopify trails
  1. Creating Locale-aware Number and Currency Condensing - ShopifyThis post details the development of the `condense-number` npm package, a solution for locale-aware number and currency condensing. It explains the limitations of existing JavaScript solutions and the decision to leverage Unicode CLDR data and Intl.js. The post highlights the process of combining this data to create functions that abbreviate numbers and currencies according to locale, addressing the need for multilingual support in Shopify's admin interfaces like Shopify Home and Analytics. The open-sourcing of this library is also noted.