vuepress-plugin-locale-prefix

VuePress plugin which replaces /path/%locale%.html paths to /%locale%/path.html

Sorry, plugin for what?

I know, it sounds strange, but sometimes you need this.

For example you have a big site with project documentation and deep directory nesting:

documentation
|-- how-to-use
    `-- dependencies
        `-- ubuntu-requirements
            `-- index.md
...

Your urls looks great, hah? /documentation/how-to-use/dependencies/ubuntu-requirements 😍

So, the next step for your big site is internationalization (i18n). The classic way to do it is create first-level directories for each locale:

en
|-- documentation
    `-- how-to-use
        `-- dependencies
            `-- ubuntu-requirements
                `-- index.md  # English doc about ubuntu requirements
ru
|-- documentation
    `-- how-to-use
        `-- dependencies
            `-- ubuntu-requirements
                `-- index.md  # Russian doc about ubuntu requirements

With deep nesting it's very painful to maintain directory tree, because you should duplicate structure for each locale.

... Okay, but what if we try something like this?

documentation
|-- how-to-use
    `-- dependencies
        `-- ubuntu-requirements
            |-- en.md  # English doc about ubuntu requirements
            `-- ru.md  # Russian doc about ubuntu requirements
...

In this case we have only one directory tree, but now urls are awful and not SEO friendly: /documentation/how-to-use/dependencies/ubuntu-requirements/en.html

So, my plugin is solution for the problem, it replaces /documentation/how-to-use/dependencies/ubuntu-requirements/en.html to /en/documentation/how-to-use/dependencies/ubuntu-requirements.html 🎉

Plugin also supports default locale, when you want to host one locale as /, and others as /%locale%/, see "Options"

Plugin created especially for Teamlead Roadmap project

Install

yarn add -D @b0g3r/vuepress-plugin-locale-prefix
# OR npm install -D @b0g3r/vuepress-plugin-locale-prefix

Usage

Note: plugin should be places as high as possible, especially before any plugin that can change page.path or page.regularPath attributes (e.g. clean-urls)

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    ['@b0g3r/locale-prefix',{
      locales: new Map([
        ['en', '/en/'],
        ['ru', '/'],
      ]) 
    }]
  ]
}

Options

locales (required)

• Type: Map<string, string>

Set mapping of filename → pathPrefix. For example Map('en' → '/en/', 'ru' → '/') will host all en.md files with root prefix /en/ and all ru.md with root prefix /