i18next: Reinitializing was working in version 19.8.7 but started breaking after 19.8.8

💥 Regression Report

As per our requirements we had to use a single instance of i18next through out the application. Within the application we are loading a base component library which works in a standalone mode (for culture) during development. Once developed this library is packaged and published on NPM. Within the application we are installing base components via NPM. Since base components are not bundled they point towards similar instance of i18next as the consumer. Due to incorrect loading sequence even if the base component initializes the i18next instance we want it to be reinitialize by the consumer (application) which would be finally responsible for pulling resources for the loaded base components in production.

I just saw the docs stating we shouldn’t ideally called init function twice, but as per our use case its essential for us to recall the init function so that even if the base component initializes the package, it is re initialized by the consumer. Ref: https://www.i18next.com/overview/api

This was working as expected till version 19.8.7 but in 19.8.8 something broke this behaviour, I tried going through the tags but couldn’t found something that would have broken the flow.

Kindly help us to resolve above issue. Looking forward to your reply

Last working version

Worked up to version: 19.8.7

Stopped working in version: 19.8.8

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Try calling init method twice for switching lng and resources, (Although this can be changed via other API as well, its important for us to have a completely fresh instance)

instance = i18next.createInstance()

coreInit = (options) => {
 instance.init(options)
}

Expected behavior

Should be able reinitialize the package without any side effects

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Your Environment

• runtime version: i.e. node v14
• i18next version: i.e. 19.8.8
• os: Windows
• any other relevant information

Ref: https://github.com/i18next/i18next/compare/v19.8.7...v19.8.8

I guess due to above change lng is not changing