Strategies

There are four supported strategies that affect how app's routes are generated:

no_prefix

With this strategy, your routes won't have a locale prefix added. The locale will be detected & changed without changing the URL. This implies that you have to rely on browser & cookie detection, and implement locale switches by calling the i18n API.

prefix_except_default

Using this strategy, all of your routes will have a locale prefix added except for the default language.

prefix

With this strategy, all routes will have a locale prefix.

prefix_and_default

This strategy combines both previous strategies behaviours, meaning that you will get URLs with prefixes for every language, but URLs for the default language will also have a non-prefixed version (though the prefixed version will be preferred when detectBrowserLanguage is enabled).

Configuration

To configure the strategy, use the strategy option. Make sure that you have a defaultLocale defined, especially if using prefix_except_default, prefix_and_default or no_prefix strategy. For other strategies it's also recommended to set it as it's gonna be used as a fallback when attempting to redirect from 404 page.

i18n: {
  strategy: 'prefix_except_default',
  defaultLocale: 'en'
}

i18n: {
  strategy: 'prefix_except_default',
  defaultLocale: 'en',
  locales: [
    'fr',
    'en',  // Make sure that default locale is the last one!
  ]
}