🐛(i18n) same frontend and backend language using shared cookies

frontend: switch to cookie-based language selection
backend: use cookie for language

src/frontend/apps/impress/package.json

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     "@openfun/cunningham-react": "2.9.4",
     "@tanstack/react-query": "5.59.15",
     "i18next": "23.16.2",
+    "i18next-browser-languagedetector": "8.0.0",
     "idb": "8.0.0",
     "lodash": "4.17.21",
     "luxon": "3.5.0",

src/frontend/apps/impress/src/i18n/__tests__/utils.spec.ts

@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-import { LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE } from '../conf';
-import { getLanguage, splitLocaleCode } from '../utils';
-
-describe('i18n utils', () => {
-  afterEach(() => {
-    localStorage.removeItem(LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE);
-  });
-
-  it('checks language code is correctly splitted', () => {
-    expect(splitLocaleCode('fr_FR')).toEqual({ language: 'fr', region: 'FR' });
-    expect(splitLocaleCode('en_US')).toEqual({ language: 'en', region: 'US' });
-    expect(splitLocaleCode('en')).toEqual({
-      language: 'en',
-      region: undefined,
-    });
-    expect(splitLocaleCode('fr-FR')).toEqual({ language: 'fr', region: 'FR' });
-    expect(splitLocaleCode('en-US')).toEqual({ language: 'en', region: 'US' });
-  });
-
-  it('checks that we get expected language from local storage', () => {
-    localStorage.setItem(LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE, 'fr_FR');
-    expect(getLanguage()).toEqual('fr');
-    localStorage.removeItem(LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE);
-
-    localStorage.setItem(LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE, 'en_FR');
-    expect(getLanguage()).toEqual('en');
-
-    localStorage.setItem(LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE, 'xx_XX');
-    expect(getLanguage()).toEqual('fr');
-  });
-
-  it('checks that we get expected language from browser', () => {
-    Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'language', {
-      value: 'fr',
-      writable: false,
-      configurable: true,
-    });
-
-    expect(getLanguage()).toEqual('fr');
-
-    Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'language', {
-      value: 'en',
-      writable: false,
-      configurable: true,
-    });
-    expect(getLanguage()).toEqual('en');
-
-    Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'language', {
-      value: 'xx',
-      writable: false,
-      configurable: true,
-    });
-    expect(getLanguage()).toEqual('fr');
-  });
-});

src/frontend/apps/impress/src/i18n/conf.ts

@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ export const LANGUAGES_ALLOWED: { [key: string]: string } = {
   en: 'English',
   fr: 'Français',
 };
-export const LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE = 'impress-language';
-export const BASE_LANGUAGE = 'fr';
+export const LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME = 'docs_language';
+export const BASE_LANGUAGE = 'en';

src/frontend/apps/impress/src/i18n/initI18n.ts

@@ -1,15 +1,23 @@
 import i18n from 'i18next';
+import LanguageDetector from 'i18next-browser-languagedetector';
 import { initReactI18next } from 'react-i18next';
 
-import { LANGUAGES_ALLOWED, LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE } from './conf';
+import { BASE_LANGUAGE, LANGUAGES_ALLOWED, LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME } from './conf';
 import resources from './translations.json';
-import { getLanguage } from './utils';
 
 i18n
+  .use(LanguageDetector)
   .use(initReactI18next)
   .init({
     resources,
-    lng: getLanguage(),
+    fallbackLng: BASE_LANGUAGE,
+    supportedLngs: Object.keys(LANGUAGES_ALLOWED),
+    detection: {
+      order: ['cookie', 'navigator'], // detection order
+      caches: ['cookie'], // Use cookies to store the language preference
+      lookupCookie: LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME,
+      cookieMinutes: 525600, // Expires after one year
+    },
     interpolation: {
       escapeValue: false,
     },
@@ -20,11 +28,4 @@ i18n
     throw new Error('i18n initialization failed');
   });
 
-// Save language in local storage
-i18n.on('languageChanged', (lng) => {
-  if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
-    localStorage.setItem(LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE, lng);
-  }
-});
-
 export default i18n;

src/frontend/apps/impress/src/i18n/utils.ts

@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-import {
-  BASE_LANGUAGE,
-  LANGUAGES_ALLOWED,
-  LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE,
-} from './conf';
-
-export const splitLocaleCode = (language: string) => {
-  const locale = language.split(/[-_]/);
-  return {
-    language: locale[0],
-    region: locale.length === 2 ? locale[1] : undefined,
-  };
-};
-
-export const getLanguage = () => {
-  if (typeof window === 'undefined') {
-    return BASE_LANGUAGE;
-  }
-
-  const languageStore =
-    localStorage.getItem(LANGUAGE_LOCAL_STORAGE) || navigator?.language;
-
-  const language = splitLocaleCode(languageStore).language;
-
-  return Object.keys(LANGUAGES_ALLOWED).includes(language)
-    ? language
-    : BASE_LANGUAGE;
-};