Feature request: Generated paths should follow the i18n custom route paths (config and macro)

[timothejoubert]

Thank you for taking the time to fill out this feature request!

Description

The generated output should follow the i18n custom path set in i18n config.
https://stackblitz.com/edit/nuxt-starter-i18n-timothe-kab8ad?file=nuxt.config.ts,pages/index.vue,package.json
Would be nice to work with defineI18nRoute macro too

Input

export default defineNuxtConfig({
...
  i18n: {
    strategy: 'prefix_except_default',
    customRoutes: 'config',
    pages: {
      index: {
        fr: '/',
        en: '/home',
      },
      other: {
        fr: '/autre-page',
        en: '/other-page',
      },
    },
  },
  robots: {
    allow: ['/'],
    disallow: ['/other'],
  },

Actual output

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /en/
Disallow: /other
Disallow: /en/other

Expected output

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /en/home
Disallow: /autre-page
Disallow: /en/other-page

[harlan-zw]

Hi, I agree this should be supported as the Sitemap module does support this.

PRs welcome otherwise will attempt when I have a chance.

[MickL]

In your feature request you used file paths, e.g. '/other'. But in the world of nuxt i18n you would use route names instead that get generated by Nuxt and can be seen in the devtools. For example /pages/other.vue becomes other, and pages/product/[id].vue becomes product-id. In nuxt-i18n you can link them e.g. <NuxtLinkLocale :to="{ name: 'product-id' , params: { id: '123' }}">Product</NuxtLinkLocale>.

I would suggest nuxt-seo to also use route names instead of paths for i18n:

robots: {
    disallow: ['other', 'product-id'],
},

---

Btw. what you want to archive is very easy by use of inline route rules:

<script setup lang="ts">
defineI18nRoute({
  paths: {
    en: '/other',
    fr: '/autre',
  },
});

defineRouteRules({
  robots: false,
});
</script>

Note that for this you need to have experimental.inlineRouteRules enabled in your nuxt config. Unfortunately tho, this feature is not working with latest Nuxt 3.16, issue: harlan-zw/nuxt-seo#404