Fix: missing localizations in middleware populate

[fonodi]

What does it do?

Fixes the missing localizations key in middleware populate. Also added some cleanup.

Why is it needed?

Because of this the locale switcher was not showing up in the main header section.

How to test it?

When going on the page, the locale switcher should show the available locales from Strapi.

Some additional things to check:

• Strapi project uuid is "LAUNCHPAD". strapi/packages.json.
• Strapi version is the latest possible.
• If the Strapi version has been changed, make sure that the strapi/scripts/prefillLoginFields.js works.
• If you updated content, make sure to create a new export in the strapi/data folder and update the strapi/packages.json seed command if necessary.

Related issue(s)/PR(s)

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[fonodi]

@PaulBratslavsky while doing #90 , I figured out that the localizations was in the middleware populates. Nothing threw an error and it defaulted to an empty array. That's why the the header had no locale switcher.

I also updated Strapi to the latest version as said in the todos and ran some shai-hulud 2.0 scans against the package.json and the repo, which threw no errors.

I saw some potential to simplifie and cleanup some code as well, which I also included here. Please let me know what you think about it 👍

[alex-strapi]

LGTM, thanks for removing patch-package too!

[PaulBratslavsky]

@fonodi looks great, thank you, you can merge it.

[PaulBratslavsky]

🙂