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Convert i18n components to TypeScript

This PR converts src/components/i18n from JavaScript with Flow to TypeScript.

Changes

  • Converted FormattedCompMessage, Param, Plural, Composition, and constants to TypeScript
  • Exported component props interfaces from index.ts
  • Migrated 33 unit tests to TypeScript
  • Preserved .js.flow files for backward compatibility
  • Removed dead code and obsolete test PropTypes

Contract

  • Declared Flow props contract and runtime behavior are preserved

Testing

  • All 33 i18n tests pass
  • yarn lint, yarn lint:ts, and yarn flow check pass
  • Storybook compiled successfully

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for composing React content into translatable messages and reconstructing localized JSX.
    • Added parameter handling for strings, numbers, booleans, functions, objects, and React elements.
    • Added plural message support with locale-aware categories.
    • Added public internationalization exports and shared message constants.
  • Deprecation

    • Added deprecated formatted-message and plural components, with React Intl alternatives recommended.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for message composition, translation reconstruction, parameter handling, and plural rendering.

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  • src/components/i18n/Composition.ts
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Walkthrough

Added Flow and TypeScript i18n utilities that compose React trees into translatable messages and decompose translations back into React content. Added parameter and plural components, deprecated formatted message rendering, public exports, constants, and tests.

Changes

Internationalized composition components

Layer / File(s) Summary
Value and plural contracts
src/components/i18n/Param.*, src/components/i18n/Plural.*, src/components/i18n/constants.*, src/components/i18n/__tests__/Param.test.tsx, src/components/i18n/__tests__/Plural.test.tsx
Param converts supported values into renderable message content. Plural defines plural-category children and returns them unchanged. Shared JavaScript type and plural-category constants are exported. Tests cover parameter values and typed test helpers.
Composition and decomposition engine
src/components/i18n/Composition.*, src/components/i18n/__tests__/Composition.test.ts
Composition recursively builds minimal translatable strings, caches composition results, preserves or generates keys, and reconstructs React elements from translated message trees. Tests cover primitives, nesting, parameters, properties, ordering, and repeated calls.
Formatted message rendering
src/components/i18n/FormattedCompMessage.*, src/components/i18n/index.*
FormattedCompMessage builds normal or plural messages, validates plural forms in development, formats translations, decomposes the result, and renders configurable wrappers with resource metadata. The i18n barrel exports the deprecated components and prop types.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to de72c

The i18n migration can fail for empty-message rendering, produce incorrect exact-number plural output, and reject valid TypeScript consumers. These issues should be resolved before merge.

Suggested reviewers: greg-in-a-box, jfox-box, jpan-box

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sequenceDiagram
  participant FormattedCompMessage
  participant Composition
  participant Intl
  participant React
  FormattedCompMessage->>Composition: compose source content
  FormattedCompMessage->>Intl: formatMessage composed source and count
  Intl-->>FormattedCompMessage: translated message
  FormattedCompMessage->>Composition: decompose translated message
  Composition-->>FormattedCompMessage: reconstructed React content
  FormattedCompMessage->>React: render wrapped content with resource id
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A rabbit builds messages bright,
Then maps translated nodes just right.
Plural forms follow their cue,
Parameters keep their values true.
React hops back in tune.

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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 4…
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Actionable comments posted: 3

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src/components/i18n/Composition.ts (1)

115-140: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Reduce the repeated casts in mapToReactElements.

children is declared as React.ReactNode | React.ReactNode[], then re-cast twice (childrenWithLength, normalizedChildren). The casts hide the real invariant: node.children.map(...) always returns an array, and only the temp branch can produce a non-array value. A narrower local type removes both casts and keeps the runtime behavior of the Flow twin.

♻️ Suggested normalization
-        let children: React.ReactNode | React.ReactNode[] = children;
+        let children: React.ReactNode[] | React.ReactNode = node.children.map(child => this.mapToReactElements(child));
+
+        // normalize once, then branch on the array form

A cleaner shape is to keep childArray: React.ReactNode[] for the mapped result and a separate resolved: React.ReactNode for the temp/single-string cases.

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In `@src/components/i18n/Composition.ts` around lines 115 - 140, Refactor
mapToReactElements to preserve the mapped result as a React.ReactNode[] and use
a separate resolved React.ReactNode value for the temp fallback and
single-string normalization. Remove the childrenWithLength and
normalizedChildren casts, while preserving the existing cloneElement,
array-length, and node.value fallback behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/components/i18n/FormattedCompMessage.ts`:
- Around line 26-30: Update the defaultMessage prop type in FormattedCompMessage
to accept rendered JSX values by replacing React.ElementType with
React.ReactElement or React.ReactNode, while retaining string support and the
existing prop behavior.
- Around line 139-148: Update composePluralString to serialize exact-number
plural selectors =0 through =19 in deterministic order alongside the existing
named categories, preserving each configured branch’s message. Add a test
covering an exact selector, such as count={0}, to verify it is emitted and
selected instead of falling back to other.
- Around line 85-106: Update the FormattedCompMessage constructor to initialize
an empty Composition and source before the sourceElements conditional, ensuring
this.state is assigned when only id and description are provided while
preserving the existing sourceElements processing and translation lookup
behavior.

Apply the same fix in `@src/components/i18n/FormattedCompMessage.js.flow` around
lines 97 - 116: The preserved Flow twin documents the same conditional state
initialization and requires the same remediation.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/components/i18n/Composition.ts`:
- Around line 115-140: Refactor mapToReactElements to preserve the mapped result
as a React.ReactNode[] and use a separate resolved React.ReactNode value for the
temp fallback and single-string normalization. Remove the childrenWithLength and
normalizedChildren casts, while preserving the existing cloneElement,
array-length, and node.value fallback behavior.
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  • src/components/i18n/Composition.js.flow
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  • src/components/i18n/Param.js.flow
  • src/components/i18n/Param.ts
  • src/components/i18n/Plural.js.flow
  • src/components/i18n/Plural.ts
  • src/components/i18n/__tests__/Composition.test.ts
  • src/components/i18n/__tests__/Param.test.tsx
  • src/components/i18n/__tests__/Plural.test.tsx
  • src/components/i18n/constants.js.flow
  • src/components/i18n/constants.ts
  • src/components/i18n/index.js.flow
  • src/components/i18n/index.ts

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LGTM

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