# How can we use i18n in plugin index.js
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-i18n-in-plugin-index-js/128441
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-i18n-in-plugin-index-js/128441 "2018-04-18T02:37:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@whoami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whoami)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-i18n-in-plugin-index-js/128441/1 "2018-04-18T02:37:21Z")
kibana version: 5.5
how can we use i18n in plugin/index.js?
cause I wanna translate the app menu title.
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### Author:  [@timroes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timroes)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-i18n-in-plugin-index-js/128441/2 "2018-04-18T06:31:09Z")
Hi,
there is currently no internationalization build into Kibana. You can follow [#17201](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17201) for updates on the topic.
Regards,
Tim
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### Author:  [@whoami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whoami)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-i18n-in-plugin-index-js/128441/3 "2018-04-20T03:11:35Z")
no, afaik, we can use $translate.instant to do some translation, but how can we use that in plugin/index.js, where we cannot use $translate , seems even the new RFC cannot do translate for menu title
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### Author:  [@timroes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timroes)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-i18n-in-plugin-index-js/128441/4 "2018-04-20T07:44:46Z")
Of course you can use `$translate` (aka angular-translate) to translate your frontend, but there is still no proper build in support for e.g. switch your language in Kibana.
Also `plugin/index.js` will run on the server side, so there won't be any angular translate available and since there is no i18n currently in Kibana there is also no other solution.
I will leave a comment in the RFC about that server side internationalization.
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### Author:  [@whoami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whoami)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-i18n-in-plugin-index-js/128441/5 "2018-04-20T08:12:57Z")
emmm, I do some hack to support that, maybe not the best practice. by the way, I will wait the official solution. anyway, I will close this issue. thanks @timroes, for your quick answer
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-i18n-in-plugin-index-js/128441/6 "2018-05-18T08:12:57Z")
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