--- title: Why I’m switching to Paraglide for i18n | daily.dev description: Paraglide-JS offers a modern approach to internationalization with type-safety to catch errors during development, exceptional performance through tree-shaking... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vydypiw6x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why I’m switching to Paraglide for i18n | daily.dev og:description: Paraglide-JS offers a modern approach to internationalization with type-safety to catch errors during development, exceptional performance through tree-shaking... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vydypiw6x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VYdYpiW6X.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why I’m switching to Paraglide for i18n **[Open Source Front End](https://daily.dev/sources/opensourcefrontend)** · [@janszotkowski](https://daily.dev/janszotkowski) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Paraglide-JS offers a modern approach to internationalization with type-safety to catch errors during development, exceptional performance through tree-shaking and zero runtime overhead, and simplicity by compiling translations into fast JavaScript functions. 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