Within your dato.config.js
file, you can easily switch between your locales changing the value of i18n.locale
:
// dato.config.jsmodule.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {i18n.locale = 'en';dato.blogPosts[0].title; // => "Hello world!"i18n.locale = 'it';dato.blogPosts[0].title // => "Ciao mondo!"};
If you need to temporarily switch locale, and then restore the previous value, you can use i18n.withLocale
:
// dato.config.jsmodule.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {i18n.locale = 'en';dato.blogPosts[0].title; // => "Hello world!"i18n.withLocale('it', () => {i18n.locale; // => "it"dato.blogPosts[0].title; // => "Ciao mondo!"});i18n.locale; // => "en"dato.blogPosts[0].title; // => "Hello world!"};
You can also obtain the list of languages of your administrative area with i18n.availableLocales
:
// dato.config.jsmodule.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {i18n.availableLocales; // => [ 'en', 'it' ]};
You can also configure the config file so that if a particular field in a specific locale is not empty, it will try to return the value for other languages. In the following example, if a blog post does not have a title in italian, it will use the english one:
module.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {i18n.fallbacks = {it: ['en']};i18n.locale = 'it';dato.blogPosts[0].title; // => "Hello world!"}
Here's a complete example that creates multiple versions of your articles, one for each available locale:
// dato.config.jsmodule.exports = (dato, root, i18n) => {// inside the "src/article" directory...root.directory("content/article", (articlesDir) => {// iterate over all the administrative area languagesi18n.availableLocales.forEach((locale) => {// switch to the nth localei18n.withLocale(locale, () => {// iterate over the "Blog post" records...dato.blogPosts.forEach((blogPost) => {// ...and create a localized markdown file for each article!articlesDir.createPost(`${blogPost.slug}_${locale}.md`, 'yaml', {frontmatter: {title: blogPost.title,date: blogPost.publishedAt,},content: blogPost.content});});});});});};
DatoCMS allows a great deal of customization when dealing with localization. Check out these tutorial videos for a hands-on approach: