null is not an object (evaluating 'window.localStorage.getItem')

[ThulinaWickramasinghe]

I'm using your package with Next.js 14 pages router. We're using next ex
I'm using latest version of your package for pages router.
Since some time I've been getting some errors on sentry.

null is not an object (evaluating 'window.localStorage.getItem')

I would love to have your support in fixing this issue.

[ThulinaWickramasinghe]

Since I'm using next export with no SSR I suspect this issue might be caused by private browsing not allowing to access localStorage. And also I'm using v2 of your package since the project uses pages router. I would like to contribute in fixing this issue if you're accepting PRs.

[ThulinaWickramasinghe]

I'm getting several other sentry errors from this code which I suspect to be related to this issue.

[ThulinaWickramasinghe]

@martinkr

[martinkr]

Hi @ThulinaWickramasinghe,

Thank you for reporting your issue. Unfortunately, browser behaviour regarding local storage and private browsing is far from standardised. I can offer you two solutions. First, could you consider using the query string instead of the local storage by setting languageDataStore:'query' (or omitting it altogether)? Or, as an alternative, would you consider using a cookie instead?

Have a great day,

Martin

[ThulinaWickramasinghe]

Hello @martinkr!

Thanks for the quick response!

Currently I've omitted this languageDataStore field. Let me try with query instead.

[martinkr]

Hi @ThulinaWickramasinghe,

Can we close the issue?

[ThulinaWickramasinghe]

Hi @martinkr!

We didn't test the task yet, so I can't yet confirm whether this issue is fixed.