Global Sites

Global Sites is a boilerplate project for developers who want to build a static website that supports many languages without hand-building the translation and routing infrastructure themselves. It targets TypeScript developers building their own sites rather than end users of a hosted app.

The boilerplate uses i18next for translations and string-based template definitions, with a build step that renders a page once per language. A built-in language switcher lets visitors change languages from a dropdown or footer links, and URLs are adjusted per language so each translated page has its own address.

The framework automatically builds a sitemap with links for every language so search engines can find the translated content, adjusts robots.txt to allow crawling of all language versions, and validates HTML during the build. Output is kept small, with individual HTML files running at about 20KB, which keeps pages fast to load. For an existing single-page site, the creator also offers a paid service that converts an HTML file with inline JavaScript into multiple translated pages, with translations generated by AI and not necessarily reviewed by a human.

Access is sold as a one-time purchase to the GitHub repository and future updates rather than a hosted subscription. The project is not built with React or Next.js, though its concepts are easy to follow for developers who know React.

Use cases

• Converting a single existing HTML page into a multilingual site
• Expanding a site from one language to twenty or more