Company
Date Published
Author
Diego Salinas-Gardon
Word count
1599
Language
English
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None

Summary

### Localizing to the user’s dialect of Spanish using Next.js Middleware and Netlify Next.js middleware is a software layer that sits between an operating system (like a web server) and its applications, allowing for efficient ways to deliver localized and translated content. By leveraging Next.js advanced middleware on Netlify's servers, developers can intercept requests-in-progress, rewrite, redirect, add headers, or set cookies to their content. This enables the creation of personalized experiences based on geolocation data, such as localized text and page props in a website. The tutorial demonstrates how to set up Next.js middleware with Netlify by installing required packages, setting up a development server, creating a middleware file, editing an index page to work with middleware, deploying to Netlify, and accessing the prototype in action.