Set cookie to locale that it redirected to, and always redirect (unless manually switched to different locale)

What problem does this feature solve?

I implemented my own version of detectBrowserLanguage when I was still using an older version of nuxt-i18n and I was happy to see this feature was added in a later version! I just tried it out, and I think the current implementation can be improved, because now it will only redirect the first time, not when a user returns to the main url.

What does the proposed changes look like?

The cookie should be set to the initially detected language, en then always check what the (last selected) language is set to in the cookie. Then we can always redirect to the language stored in the cookie. If the user manually switched language through the switchLocalePath function, the cookie can be updated with the manually selected language, and also remember this manual overwrite on the next visit.

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[borie88]

Thanks. I ended up doing something similar, making a plugin:

import VueCookie from 'vue-cookie'

export default function ({ app }) {
  app.i18n.onLanguageSwitched = (oldLocale, newLocale) => {
    if (process.browser) {
      if (VueCookie.get('i18n_redirected') !== newLocale) {
        VueCookie.set('i18n_redirected', newLocale)
      }
    }
  }
}

[rchl]

@stact despite the naming, switchLocalePath just returns URL of current page for given locale. So it wouldn’t really fit to make it set the cookie. Remember it can be used multiple time in a template and then it would change state every time it’s called.