How to Make Any React App Multilingual — From Local App to Global Product

🚀 The Problem That Changed Everything Picture this: You've just launched your beautiful React app. Users love it. The metrics look great. Then you check your analytics and realize something shocking — 67% of your potential users bounced within 10 seconds . Why? They couldn't read it. This happened to me when I built a campus event platform. We had users from diverse linguistic backgrounds — Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu speakers — but our app only spoke English. We weren't just losing users; we were actively excluding them. That's when I realized: Multilingual support isn't a feature. It's a growth decision. This is the story of how we transformed our local campus tool into a platform that serves thousands of users across language barriers. And I'm going to show you exactly how to do it — step by step, with real code, real patterns, and real product thinking. 💡 What You'll Build: By the end of this article, you'll have a production-ready multilingual React app with language switching,