Axel Hecht wrote:

> ...
> > Right, obviously. But that seems like a small cost compared with the
> > massive cost (both to development and to live usage) of making every
> string
> > lookup asynchronous.
> We actually have a rich experience from converting gaia apps and their
> developers to these APIs, and it turned out that once you get into it,
> things are much nicer. A lot of the gaia devs were much happier to use
> the l20n apis compared to the old sync l10n.js ones.
>
> The key here is to use the API in the ways it's strong:
>
> Just add html, and let the library localize it. This is what the
> experiment that stas did around "just use l20n" did. Just pass the data
> to the html, and the l20n library will figure out what to do, and when.
>
> That's a lot easier than manually looking up each string, and then
> marshalling it through a bunch of DOM calls.
>

So the render() call in React is synchronous. There is no option to resolve
a promise.
The only thing you can do is to some form of re-render at a later time.

The examples seem to mostly cause a re-render by calling setState one way
or another when the string is available.
The trouble is this doesn't address the lifecycle of a react application.
When something else changes, and you need to re-render for a different
reason, you need to start all over again with an async lookup ...

Presumably, string formatting is synchronous with l20n? I think that's the
place to start looking. Could you give me a pointer to a format function?

Thanks,
Joe.
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