---
title: useDesignTranslation
---

import { DocusaurusDoc } from '@freesewing/react/components/Docusaurus'
import { Popout } from '@freesewing/react/components/Popout'
import { Tab, Tabs } from '@freesewing/react/components/Tab'

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The **useDesignTranslation** hook provides translations for the entire FreeSewing collection of designs.

<Popout type="tip" title="Beware of bundle size">
Use this hook to load design translations when you plan to use the entire collection. If
you only plan to use one or a few designs, you may want to load them differently as
incluyding this hook will include all FreeSewing designs in your code bundle.
</Popout>

## Example

<Tabs tabs="hook, named export, direct import">
<Tab>
Using the hook makes it easy to load a design translations if you want to be able to
dynamically load a different design, or do not know in advance what designs
should be made available.

```js
import { useDesign } from '@freesewing/react/hooks/useDesign'
import { useDesignTranslation } from '@freesewing/react/hooks/useDesignTranslation'

const MyComponent = ({ name = 'aaron' }) => {
  const Aaron = useDesign(name)
  const i18n = useDesignTranslation(name)

  // ...
}
```
</Tab>
<Tab>
This hook has a `designTranslations` named export that holds translations for the entire FreeSewing collection.

```js
import { designs } from '@freesewing/react/hooks/useDesign'
import { designTranslations } from '@freesewing/react/hooks/useDesignTranslations'

const MyComponent = () => {
  const Aaron = designs.aaron
  const i18n = designTranslations.aaron

  // ...
}
```
</Tab>
<Tab>
If you know in advance what design you want, importing directly is more efficient.
```js
import { Aaron, i18n } from '@freesewing/aaron'

const MyComponent = () => {

  // ...
}
```
</Tab>
</Tabs>

## Return value

Calling the hook returns an object holding design translations.

## Named exports

You can also load the `designTranslations` named exports from the same import:

```js
import {
  designTranslations, // An object where the key is the (lowercase) design name, and the value on object holding the design translations
  useDesignTranslation, // The hook
} from '@freesewing/react/hooks/useDesignTranslation'
```

- `designTranslations` is an object where the key is the (lowercase) design name, and the value on object holding the design translations.

</DocusaurusDoc>


