Reload on message file updates

[mattiloh]

Hi @amannn!
First of all: Great work! I really like the simplicity and flexibility of this lib 👍

I started experimenting with it in a new project today (using next@10.2.0) and one thing is bothering me: I need to manually stop and restart the Next.js dev server to make updates on json message files visible. Do you have the same issue in your dev-setup or did you find a way to restart the server automatically?

[mattiloh]

Never mind. I don't know what I changed, but now the server restarts whenever I update the message files. I still need to manually reload the page to see the changes, but that's ok.

[amannn]

Hi @mattiloh,

thank you for giving next-intl a shot and your feedback! 🙂

The messages not updating sounds odd to me. I've just upgraded the example in this repo to the latest Next.js version and I get updated messages when I reload the page.

The update mechanism ultimately depends on how you provide your labels. If they're imported in client code statically, I think you'd even get Fast Refresh support. But if they come from getStaticProps and friends you need a page reload.

[mattiloh]

Yes, that's correct. I found this repo to get page-reloads for these cases: https://github.com/hashicorp/next-remote-watch

[amannn]

Oh that's nice, thanks for sharing!

[kachkaev]

What’s the current recommended way of page reloading when translations change? next-remote-watch does not work with Next.js 13 and 14: hashicorp/next-remote-watch#52