Crash Course Into Multilingual Websites With next.JS and Headless Content

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On this crash course, we'll create a new project in the headless CMS, fill it with data, and use the content to build a multilingual Next.js app. We'll spend a lot of time in code to:

- Generate strongly typed models and structure for the content

- Set up the site for multiple languages

- Use respective language codes in content fetching and incorporate language fallbacks

- Resolve multilingual content from rich text fields


You will learn:

- How to work with content from headless CMS (Kontent.ai)

- How content model can be leveraged to generate TS types and what benefits it brings to your project

- How to add multilingual capabilities to Next.js website

- How to use language fallbacks

- What are the typical gotchas when working with multilingual content

This workshop has been presented at React Advanced 2022, check out the latest edition of this React Conference.

FAQ

A headless CMS, like Content.ai, offers flexibility and scalability in website development by separating the content management from the site's presentation layer. This decoupling allows developers to use any front-end technology and design custom content models that meet their specific needs, making it easier to integrate multilingual support and other dynamic features.

Language switching on a multilingual Next.js site can be handled by using the Next.js router to detect the current locale and display language options accordingly. Links or buttons can be configured to switch locales, dynamically updating the URL and re-rendering the page in the selected language without losing the page context.

To import content into a Next.js project using Content.ai, first register for a free developer plan or use a shared project ID, then clone the provided GitHub repository. Use the content template manager tool to import the content.zip package by providing your project ID and management API key. This will populate your project with the necessary content types and data.

In a headless CMS like Content.ai, multilingual content management involves creating language-specific versions of content items. Users can configure different languages in the CMS settings and then create or translate content into these languages, ensuring that each language variant is properly linked and accessible through the CMS's API.

In Next.js, 'getStaticProps' is used for fetching data at build time and passing this data as props to the page, optimizing the page for performance by rendering static content. 'getStaticPaths' is used to define dynamic routes and pre-render pages based on data fetched. Both methods are crucial for building efficient, scalable applications with Next.js.

Using TypeScript with Next.js provides benefits such as static type checking, which can catch errors at compile time, improved code quality and maintainability, and enhanced autocompletion and code navigation in supported editors. This combination is powerful for developing large-scale applications with greater efficiency and fewer bugs.

To add new languages to a Next.js project, first configure the languages in the Content.ai CMS and then update the Next.js configuration to include these languages in the 'i18n' block of 'next.config.js'. This setup enables dynamic routing based on locale and allows for the creation of language-specific URLs within the application.

Next.js is utilized for building multilingual websites by handling different language contents efficiently. It supports dynamic routing, which is essential for creating localized versions of web pages, allowing users to switch seamlessly between languages while maintaining the context of the webpage.

Ondrej Polesny
Ondrej Polesny
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14 Oct, 2022

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