Shipping a multilingual site without duplicating your codebase
Published on May 25, 20265 min readWritten by Rani Prameswari
Most multilingual sites go wrong in the same place: the URL. Once slugs differ per locale, naive routing forces either duplicated pages or English URLs everywhere.
The routing contract
The default locale is served unprefixed. Every other locale gets a prefix. Slugs are resolved per locale from the database, and each page emits a complete set of hreflang alternates plus x-default.
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