React-intl define messages outside of react

Question

I have utils.js file.

export function categoryIdToCategoryName(categoryId) {
let name;
switch (categoryId) {
    case constants.RISK_CATEGORY_LOW:
        na         


        

Answer 1

You can directly use the yahoo intl library for this task: https://github.com/yahoo/intl-messageformat

Otherwise you can pass the formatMessage function from your react component to the functions it calls.