# Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers

DevFeed: [Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/lessons-from-linguistics-i18n-best-practices-for-front-end-developers-1450.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/internationalization-i18n-best-practices-front-end-developers>)

Author: Lucas Huang

Published: 2023-03-16T18:19:33Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>)

Tags: [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

Internationalization best practices for front-end developers, focusing on avoiding translation errors caused by English-specific grammar, punctuation, and hardcoded word order.

## Source excerpt

Here are a few internationalization (i18n) best practices to help front-end developers avoid errors and serve more robust text content on multilingual websites and apps.