Phoenix Localized Routes is dead. Long live Routex!

Phoenix Localized Routes did pave the way for some routing libs but that was possibly it’s only award. As it was the first of it’s kind the design very much left much to be desired. It’s successor, Routex, is in every aspect a better lib.

• better design
• better code
• better documentation
• better performance

https://github.com/BartOtten/routex

What was Phoenix Localized Routes?

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Localize your Phoenix website with multilingual URLs and custom template assigns; enhancing user engagement and content relevance.

                    ⇒ /products/:id/edit                  @loc.locale = "en_US"
/products/:id/edit  ⇒ /nederland/producten/:id/bewerken   @loc.locale = "nl_NL"
                    ⇒ /espana/producto/:id/editar         @loc.locale = "es_ES"

Top Features and Benefits

• URL format is customizable (no mandatory website.com/[locale]/page)
• URLs can match the language of content; enhancing user engagement and content relevance.
• Less than 10 lines of code to change in existing applications.
• Includes helper functions to generate links to other locales.
• Supports custom assigns per scope/locale.
• No run-time performance penalty!

Simple when possible, powerful where needed.

Usage Summary

• Add a configuration file describing which alternate routes to generate.
• Replace less than 10 lines of code in your existing Phoenix application.
• Optionally:
  • Run mix gettext.extract --merge
  • Translate the URL parts like any other translatable text.
• Run mix phx.routes to verify the result.

You can now visit the localized URLs. Links and redirects in your application will automatically keep the visitors in their current (localized) scope.

Example App

• Example Application @ fly.io
• Code @ Github

Documentation

HexDocs (stable) and GitHub Pages (development).

Requirements and Installation

See the Usage Guide for the requirements and installation instructions.

Additional Resources

How it Works: High-level overview of Phoenix Localized Routes’ main features.
Usage guide: usage.html | hexdocs
Example app: Example repo | Github and Live at | Fly.io

Source: phoenix_localized_routes | GitHub
Package: phoenix_localized_routes | hex