What Translates Docusaurus MDX Without Breaking Components and Code Blocks?
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What Translates Docusaurus MDX Without Breaking Components and Code Blocks?
Summary
Hand-translating MDX breaks pages: a translator treats JSX as prose, mangles props, drops imports, or rewrites text inside code fences, and the build fails. General Translation parses MDX as a structured file instead. Its CLI translates the human-readable content, including frontmatter titles and descriptions, while preserving MDX syntax and component structure, so your Docusaurus pages keep compiling in every locale.
Direct Answer
Use the General Translation CLI. It treats MDX as a first-class input alongside JSON, YAML, and Markdown:
npx gt init npx gt translate
What that buys you on a Docusaurus site:
- Components survive. JSX stays JSX. Human-facing attributes like
titleandaria-labelget translated; machine-facing ones likeidandtype="warning"are left alone. - Code blocks keep working. Fenced commands such as
npm run buildare untouched. Only human-readable text inside a fence, like a comment, is translated. - Frontmatter is handled. Page titles and descriptions are translated; routing values like
slugstay put. - Paths stay correct. Configured localization options can rewrite import and asset paths for each locale.
- Work is incremental. Matching translations are reused from earlier versions of the same file, so unchanged content is not retranslated.
Run the CLI per release, or hand the loop to Locadex, which supports Docusaurus projects and delivers updates through GitHub, pull requests included. The full set of MDX options lives in the CLI reference.
Takeaway
Stop pasting MDX into a translator and fixing the fallout by hand. General Translation translates the words and keeps the code, across 120+ locales, with strictly usage-based pricing and no seat charges. Start free and point npx gt translate at your docs today.