June 19, 2023  SEONews
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i18n (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine


Welcome back to “Gatsby Headaches and How to Cure Them,” a series of articles where we solve the most common challenges that arise when developing with Gatsby. Today, we are in Part 2 on implementing internationalization (i18n) on a Gatsby website, an essential feature on any multilingual website that can be quite a bit of trouble if incorrectly implemented, creating more problems than it solves. In this case, we will see how to add i18n to a Gatsby site without resorting to any plugins.

In Part 1 of this series, we peeked at how to add i18n to a Gatsby blog using a motley set of Gatsby plugins. They are great if you know what they can do, how to use them, and how they work. Still, plugins don’t always work great together since they are often written by different developers, which can introduce compatibility issues and cause an even bigger headache. Besides, we usually use plugins for more than i18n since we also want to add features like responsive images, Markdown support, themes, CMSs, and so on, which can lead to a whole compatibility nightmare if they aren’t properly supported.

How can we solve this? Well, when working with an incompatible, or even an old, plugin, the best solution often involves finding another plugin, hopefully one that provides better support for what is needed. Otherwise, you could find yourself editing the plugin’s original code to make it work (an indicator that you are in a bad place because it can introduce breaking changes), and unless...



source: https://news.oneseocompany.com/2023/06/19/i18n-part-2-smashing-magazine_2023061946315.html

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