Basic Usage

The fastest way to get started with nuxt-i18n is to define the supported locales list and to provide some translation messages to vue-i18n via the vueI18n option:

{
  modules: [
    'nuxt-i18n'
  ],

  i18n: {
    locales: ['en', 'fr', 'es'],
    defaultLocale: 'en',
    vueI18n: {
      fallbackLocale: 'en',
      messages: {
        en: {
          welcome: 'Welcome'
        },
        fr: {
          welcome: 'Bienvenue'
        },
        es: {
          welcome: 'Bienvenido'
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

With this setup, nuxt-i18n generates localized URLs for all your pages, using the codes provided in the locales option as the prefix, except for the defaultLocale (read more on routing).

The vueI18n option is passed as is to vue-i18n, refer to the doc for available options.

nuxt-link

When rendering internal links in your app using <nuxt-link>, you need to get proper URLs for the current locale. To do this, nuxt-i18n registers a global mixin that provides some helper functions:

• localePath – Returns the localized URL for a given page. The first parameter can be either the path or name of the route or an object for more complex routes. A locale code can be passed as the second parameter to generate a link for a specific language:

<nuxt-link :to="localePath('index')">{{ $t('home') }}</nuxt-link>
<nuxt-link :to="localePath('/')">{{ $t('home') }}</nuxt-link>
<nuxt-link :to="localePath('index', 'en')">Homepage in English</nuxt-link>
<nuxt-link :to="localePath('/app/profile')">Route by path to: {{ $t('Profile') }}</nuxt-link>
<nuxt-link :to="localePath('app-profile')">Route by name to: {{ $t('Profile') }}</nuxt-link>
<nuxt-link
  :to="localePath({ name: 'category-slug', params: { slug: category.slug } })">
  {{ category.title }}
</nuxt-link>
<!-- It's also allowed to omit 'name' and 'path'. -->
<nuxt-link :to="localePath({ params: { slug: 'ball' } })">{{ category.title }}</nuxt-link>

Note that localePath can use the route's unprefixed path, which must start with '/' or the route's base name to generate the localized URL. The base name corresponds to the names Nuxt generates when parsing your pages/ directory, more info in Nuxt's doc.

• switchLocalePath – Returns a link to the current page in another language:

<nuxt-link :to="switchLocalePath('en')">English</nuxt-link>
<nuxt-link :to="switchLocalePath('fr')">Français</nuxt-link>

For convenience, these methods are also available in the app's context:

export default ({ app }) => {
  // Get localized path for homepage
  const localePath = app.localePath('index')
  // Get path to switch current route to French
  const switchLocalePath = app.switchLocalePath('fr')
}

• localeRoute v6.12.0+ – Returns the Route object for a given page. It works like localePath but returns route resolved by Vue Router rather than just a full route path. This can be useful since full path returned from localePath might not carry all information from provided input (for example the route params that the page doesn't specify).

const { fullPath } = localeRoute({ name: 'index', params: { foo: '1' } })

• localeLocation v6.24.0+ – Returns the Location object for a given page. It works like localePath but returns Location resolved by Vue Router rather than just a full route path. This can be useful since full path returned from localePath might not carry all information from provided input (for example route params that the page doesn't specify).

<a href="#" @click="$router.push(localeLocation({ name: 'index', params: { foo: '1' } }))">Navigate</a>