Helpers

ember-intl provides several locale-aware helpers, so that you can display translations, numbers, dates, etc.

IMPORTANT

Every helper from ember-intl always returns a string.

TIP

The helpers are simply a shortcut for calling an intl service's method in a template.

Just like the service, the format* helpers return an empty string when the input is undefined or null. This relaxation helps you avoid runtime errors in templates, where it can be hard to make early exits or wait for promises to resolve.

app/components/example.gts

gts

import { formatDate } from 'ember-intl';

<template>
  {{! Display an empty string while @message is loaded }}
  {{formatDate @message.timestamp}}
</template>

The helper that you will most frequently use is t (the "t helper" or "translation helper"). You may want to check the documentation for t first.