Skip to content

BytesText

MD · 1950B gzip budget

A file size with a translated, locale-positioned unit, in decimal or binary.

Category
Internationalisation
Budget
md, several states or a live subscription
External runtime
React / React DOM only
axe fixtureSSR rendersource scanbundle budget

Preview

Live fixture
Preview locale
5.4 MB

Try the component here. Locale-aware formatting and direction follow the selected language; example content and labels are not automatically translated. Overlay demos use interactive launchers.

Why this exists

BytesText

Français

An English unit appended to a Latin-formatted number is wrong twice over: French writes the decimal with a comma and calls it Mo, not MB.

Formatting shortcut

5.4 MB

`${(b / 1e6).toFixed(1)} MB`

BytesText

5,4 Mo

bytes-text

Install

npx shadcn@latest add https://gear5-ui.vercel.app/r/bytes-text.json

Copies the source into your project. Pulls in 3 shared registry items: format, use-locale, locale.

New here? Set up Tailwind and import aliases first →

Source & props

Edit on GitHub ↗

Prop types and inline documentation are included below. This is repository source; the installer rewrites shared imports for your project.

"use client";

import { numberFormat } from "../lib/format";
import { useLocale } from "../lib/use-locale";

export interface BytesTextProps {
  bytes: number;
  /**
   * Decimal (1000-based, "MB") is what storage vendors, browsers, and most
   * user-facing UI mean. Binary (1024-based, "MiB") is what filesystems mean.
   * Picking one silently is how a 500 MB file becomes "477 MB" in your UI.
   */
  base?: "decimal" | "binary";
  maximumFractionDigits?: number;
}

const DECIMAL_UNITS = ["byte", "kilobyte", "megabyte", "gigabyte", "terabyte"] as const;
const BINARY_SUFFIXES = ["B", "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB"] as const;

/*
 * Rendered inside a `suppressHydrationWarning` span.
 *
 * `Intl` output is not byte-identical across ICU versions, and Node's ICU is
 * not the browser's. This exact call produces "Jan 1 <U+2009>–<U+2009> 5, 2026"
 * on Node and "Jan 1 <U+0020>–<U+0020> 5, 2026" in Chrome — visually
 * identical, different bytes — so every server-rendered use would throw a
 * hydration error in a consumer's app through no fault of theirs.
 *
 * This is the case React documents the escape hatch for. The suppression is
 * scoped to this one text node, so a genuine structural mismatch anywhere else
 * still reports normally.
 */

/**
 * A file size in the reader's locale.
 *
 * Decimal sizes go through `Intl.NumberFormat`'s `unit` style, so the unit is
 * translated and positioned by the locale — "1.5 Mo" in French, "١٫٥ ميغابايت"
 * in Arabic — rather than an English "MB" glued on after a formatted number.
 *
 * Binary units have no CLDR translations, so they stay as the IEC symbols they
 * are; only the number is localised.
 */
export function BytesText({ bytes, base = "decimal", maximumFractionDigits = 1 }: BytesTextProps) {
  const { locale } = useLocale();

  const step = base === "binary" ? 1024 : 1000;
  const magnitude = bytes === 0 ? 0 : Math.floor(Math.log(Math.abs(bytes)) / Math.log(step));
  const index = Math.min(Math.max(magnitude, 0), DECIMAL_UNITS.length - 1);
  const scaled = bytes / step ** index;

  if (base === "binary") {
    const number = numberFormat(locale, { maximumFractionDigits }).format(scaled);
    return <span suppressHydrationWarning>{`${number} ${BINARY_SUFFIXES[index]}`}</span>;
  }

  return (
    <>
      {numberFormat(locale, {
        style: "unit",
        unit: DECIMAL_UNITS[index],
        unitDisplay: "short",
        maximumFractionDigits,
      }).format(scaled)}
    </>
  );
}

What CI checks

Quality contract
  • Bundled, minified and gzipped against its tier budget
  • Audited by axe in the state previewed above
  • Rendered through react-dom/server with no browser globals
  • Scanned for network calls, dangerous sinks, and unguarded animation