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I18next-browser-languagedetector

Features

This is a i18next language detection plugin use to detect user language in the browser with support for:

  • cookie (set cookie i18next=LANGUAGE)
  • sessionStorage (set key i18nextLng=LANGUAGE)
  • localStorage (set key i18nextLng=LANGUAGE)
  • navigator (set browser language)
  • querystring (append ?lng=LANGUAGE to URL)
  • htmlTag (add html language tag <html lang="LANGUAGE" ...)
  • path (http://my.site.com/LANGUAGE/...)
  • subdomain (http://LANGUAGE.site.com/...)

Detector Options

The default options can be found here.

{
  // order and from where user language should be detected
  order: ['querystring', 'cookie', 'localStorage', 'sessionStorage', 'navigator', 'htmlTag', 'path', 'subdomain'],

  // keys or params to lookup language from
  lookupQuerystring: 'lng',
  lookupCookie: 'i18next',
  lookupLocalStorage: 'i18nextLng',
  lookupSessionStorage: 'i18nextLng',
  lookupFromPathIndex: 0,
  lookupFromSubdomainIndex: 0,

  // cache user language on
  caches: ['localStorage', 'cookie'],
  excludeCacheFor: ['cimode'], // languages to not persist (cookie, localStorage)

  // optional expire and domain for set cookie
  cookieMinutes: 10,
  cookieDomain: 'myDomain',

  // optional htmlTag with lang attribute, the default is:
  htmlTag: document.documentElement,

  // optional set cookie options, reference:[MDN Set-Cookie docs](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cookie)
  cookieOptions: { path: '/', sameSite: 'strict' }
}

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