It’s very easy to get translations in back-end code — either Razor views or .cs files — by simply calling to

Sitecore.Globalization.Translate.Text()

But what about JavaScript widgets? There we have several options:

• Item Web API results in overhead and is hard to use without additional implementation.
• StringDictionary embeds values right in HTML and needs to be configured accordingly.
• Injecting translated text into .js components via HTML tags has the same drawbacks as StringDictionary.

All these options are cumbersome and inconvenient.

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