Next.js 13 internationalized navigation

next-intl provides drop-in replacements for common Next.js navigation APIs that automatically handle the user locale behind the scenes.

Link

This component wraps next/link and automatically prefixes the href with the current locale as necessary. If the default locale is matched, the href remains unchanged and no prefix is added.

import Link from 'next-intl/link';
 
// When the user is on `/en`, the link will point to `/en/about`
<Link href="/about">About</Link>
 
// You can override the `locale` to switch to another language
<Link href="/" locale="de">Switch to German</Link>

useRouter

If you need to navigate programmatically, e.g. in response to a form submission, next-intl provides a convience API that wraps useRouter from Next.js and automatically applies the locale of the user.

'use client';
 
import {useRouter} from 'next-intl/client';
 
const router = useRouter();
 
// When the user is on `/en`, the router will navigate to `/en/about`
router.push('/about');

usePathname

To retrieve the pathname without a potential locale prefix, you can call usePathname.

'use client';
 
import {usePathname} from 'next-intl/client';
 
// When the user is on `/en`, this will be `/`
const pathname = usePathname();

redirect

If you want to interrupt the render of a Server Component and redirect to another page, you can invoke the redirect function from next-intl/server. This wraps the redirect function from Next.js (opens in a new tab) and automatically applies the current locale.

import {redirect} from 'next-intl/server';
 
export default async function Profile() {
  const user = await fetchUser();
 
  if (!user) {
    // When the user is on `/en/profile`, this will be `/en/login`
    redirect('/login');
  }
 
  // ...
}