javascript - Using .toLocaleString() in Node.js

Question

So I was writing a small helper method to convert numbers into a valid money format ($xx,xxx.xx) using .toLocaleString(). Everything works as expected when using it inside Chrome, however it seems completely broken when using inside Node.js.

Example:

var n = 6000
console.log( n.toLocaleString('USD', {
  style: 'currency',
  currency: "USD",
  minimumFractionDigits : 2,
  maximumFractionDigits : 2
}) );

If you run this in the browser, it prints $6,000.00. If you run this snippet inside of Node.js REPL or application, it returns 6000 as a String.

Guessing this is a bug with Node.js? Is there a work around you could do here?

Answer 1

Based on this issue it appears that it was decided that shipping node.js with internationalization would make it too large. You can npm install intl and require that, and it will replace toLocaleString with a version that works.