在node.js上发出HTTP请求是否正常

Question

I'm using SSR with react and i18next. I don't have a lot experience with Node.js, so the question is: Is it a normal way to make an external http request in a start of a server script execution and pass all the left server script code into the then function of a returned Promise instance as a later continuation part of the script.

Server code which is bundled and then is started

server.js

import express from 'express';
import promiseRequest from 'request-promise';
import i18next from "i18next";
import middleware from "i18next-express-middleware";
import render from './render';

const app = express();

promiseRequest.get('https://api/localization')
  .then(data => {
    i18next.use(middleware.LanguageDetector);
    i18next.init();

    app.use(middleware.handle(i18next));

    app.listen(3000, () =>
      console.log('App is running')
    );

    return app;
  });

The reason I go this way is because I need to init i18n based on a response from a server.

Answer 1

Why do you need to make an api request to figure out your localization needs? Wouldn't that be a part of the incoming request to your static server (gimme the website in english, french, etc)? I'm unclear about your use case. Are you trying to have several instances of your static server to serve different languages?

A common model I've seen is to have multiple static files pre-generated, per localization, and then serve them up based on the request, ex: have a route that returns the english version when the user makes a request to http://yourwebsite.com/en , the french one at http://yourwebsite.com/fr or http://yourwebsite.fr , etc.