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Building Next.js app in 7 different languages 🇫🇷 🇩🇪🇧🇷 with i18n. Open Source.

Iuliia Shnai on July 26, 2023

Localisation is one of the ways how to make your project open and accessible for more users. So I decided to add different languages to my app....
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Mateus Abelli

I like i18n although I don't implement it too often in projects I enjoyed reading your process to add such feature.

I have a question, with this setup, is it possible to have next.js figure out the user's preferred language and automatically render the matching language?

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Iuliia Shnai

Thanks Mateus!

It is actually a good questions. I actually have no idea. I did not build it or did not try. But understand what you mean.

I build just standard always users get on the English page.

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Mateus Abelli

Oh that's cool, thanks for replying!

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Juan F Gonzalez

Great stuff here! Love to see you building cool stuff with Next.js.

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Iuliia Shnai

Thanks Juan. Are you building smth at the moment?

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Juan F Gonzalez

Not anything code related atm. 😅
But building content for folks in SaaS.

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Iuliia Shnai

That is great! Which type of content? For website or social?

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Juan F Gonzalez

Mostly for websites. Blog content that can then be used for social media and to get more organic traffic. 😀

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Aydrian

This is great. Where did you source all your translations? I'm also starting to build a lot using i18next.
I also created a i18next Backend Plugin for those who want to store their translations in a database using Prisma ORM.

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Iuliia Shnai

Sourcing is all from ChatGPT:)

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Marc Seitz

💪 Great job!

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Alim Dzhanibekov

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Alim Dzhanibekov

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Alim Dzhanibekov

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Lionel♾️☁️

Awesome job @shnai0 awesome job indeed!!

with this ... i am seeing that i really need to learn NextJS once i am done with python and done with JS. Wooow ... still got a roads to go.

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Iuliia Shnai

Thanks Lionel!

It seems that it pretty simple language and very clear one.

I don’t know python:) maybe I should also look into it:)

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Leandro Duarte

AWESOME!

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Iuliia Shnai

Thanks Leandro 😊

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Gutem

ch == Switzerland (derived from Confoederatio Helvetica)
cn == China

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Iuliia Shnai

Omg

Thank you for noticing that Gutem. I was kind of confident it is like that. Need to push update for it.

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Ahmad Essam

Nice work

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Iuliia Shnai

Thank you Ahmad!

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TommyLeong

Hello Iuliia. By any chance did you explore how i18n could pull latest translation content from an API? Not just on first launch, but on subsequent navigation or page refresh to always refer to latest translated content from backend.