https://codesandbox.io/s/silly-tesla-blj2f?file=/pages/_slug.vue
pages/_slug.vueNuxt doesn't attempt to fetch payloads that don't exist
404 errors are logged to the browser console
Hello @FreekVR ,
Are you sure that there is a bug?
For me seems to work properly:

@ziosa it doesn't show up in the console / terminal on codesandbox itself, but if you click the little button on the top-right to open it in a dedicated window, you should see a 404 for payload.js in your devtools / browser console.
Hi @FreekVR This issue is fixed with v2.13.3 (#7657) (related issue: #7648)
Forked sandbox:
Hi @pi0, it's not fixed, you can see 404 payload error when used with nuxt-i18n.
See this sandbox:
Thanks!
@pi0 @Atinux could you please reopen this issue or should I create a new issue? It's not fixed completely.
Thanks!
@divine indeed please create a reproduction, with a GitHub repo since it's hard to actually debug full static on CodeSandbox since it's dev mode only.
You can also use https://surge.sh to easily deploy once statically generated (it's free).
PS: please mention me when creating the issue
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@ziosa it doesn't show up in the console / terminal on codesandbox itself, but if you click the little button on the top-right to open it in a dedicated window, you should see a 404 for payload.js in your devtools / browser console.