underscore-i18n-mixin

What is this?

A small snippet that overrides _.template() to support calls to a gettext() function.

Why?

I made it so that it would be easy to use django's javascript translation catalog from inside an underscore microtemplate. It is probably useful elsewhere as well.

How do I use it?

Put strings you want translated inside a tag that <%t 'looks like this' %>.

How does it work?

It is really simple. It essentially transforms your tags <%= gettext('into this') %> and then passes the transformed text into the original _.template() function.