openchamber/packages/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md

Docs Authoring Guide

This package is docs content source-of-truth for OpenChamber.

Add a new docs page

1. Create a new file in packages/docs/content/docs/.

   • Example: packages/docs/content/docs/remote-access.mdx

2. Add frontmatter at top:

   ---
   title: Remote Access
   description: Access OpenChamber from outside your local network.
   ---
   

3. Use route-safe naming:

   • foo.mdx -> /foo/
   • folder/index.mdx -> /folder/
   • folder/bar.mdx -> /folder/bar/

4. Add translations for the page — see Localization. Translations are optional per page (a missing translation falls back to English), but ship them together with the page when you can.

5. If the page is linked from the sidebar, add its localized labels too — see Translate the sidebar.

6. Run validation:

   bun run docs:validate
   

Add a new sidebar section

Edit packages/docs/sidebar.config.json.

Example:

{
  "label": "Advanced",
  "items": [{ "label": "Remote Access", "link": "/remote-access/" }]
}

Rules:

• use trailing slash in links (/page/)
• every sidebar link must map to an existing MDX file
• keep section labels short and task-oriented

Localization

The docs are translated into the same languages the OpenChamber app ships in. English is the source of truth and lives at the root of content/docs/. Every other language mirrors the English files under a locale folder.

Supported locales

Language	Content folder	Sidebar translations key
English	(root, no folder)	en
Ukrainian	uk/	uk
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-cn/	zh-CN
Spanish	es/	es
Brazilian Portuguese	pt-br/	pt-BR
Korean	ko/	ko
Polish	pl/	pl

Important

The content folder uses the lowercase locale key (zh-cn, pt-br); the sidebar translations key uses the BCP-47 language tag (zh-CN, pt-BR). They look similar but are not interchangeable — Starlight resolves them with different rules. Everything else (uk, es, ko, pl, en) is identical in both columns.

This locale set is mirrored in the website at openchamber-website/apps/docs/astro.config.mjs (locales). If a language is added or removed, update both places.

Translate a page

Mirror the English file under each locale folder, keeping the exact same filename and path. Starlight matches a translation to its English page by path.

content/docs/
  install.mdx              # English (source of truth)
  uk/install.mdx           # Ukrainian
  zh-cn/install.mdx        # Chinese (Simplified)
  es/install.mdx           # Spanish
  pt-br/install.mdx        # Brazilian Portuguese
  ko/install.mdx           # Korean
  pl/install.mdx           # Polish

  guides/tunnels.mdx       # nested English page
  uk/guides/tunnels.mdx    # its Ukrainian translation

Each translated file needs its own translated frontmatter (title and description are required by validation):

---
title: Встановлення
description: Встановіть OpenChamber для десктопа, вебу або VS Code.
---

You do not have to translate every page at once. A page that is missing in a locale automatically falls back to the English version, so translations can land incrementally.

Translate the sidebar

Do not create separate sidebar entries per language and do not add a locale prefix to link — Starlight prefixes the active locale automatically. Instead, add a translations map (keyed by the BCP-47 tag from the table above) to each section and item in sidebar.config.json:

{
  "label": "Start here",
  "translations": {
    "uk": "Почніть тут",
    "zh-CN": "从这里开始",
    "es": "Empieza aquí",
    "pt-BR": "Comece aqui",
    "ko": "여기서 시작",
    "pl": "Zacznij tutaj"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "label": "Install",
      "link": "/install/",
      "translations": {
        "uk": "Встановлення",
        "zh-CN": "安装",
        "es": "Instalación",
        "pt-BR": "Instalação",
        "ko": "설치",
        "pl": "Instalacja"
      }
    }
  ]
}

A label with no translation for the active locale falls back to the English label.

What not to translate

• brand and product nouns: OpenChamber, OpenCode, VS Code, PWA, GitHub, Discord, macOS, SSH
• code blocks, shell commands, file paths, flags, and config keys
• the page filename and the sidebar link (these stay identical across locales)

Validate

bun run docs:validate walks every .mdx under content/docs/ — including translations — and fails if any page is missing title or description frontmatter, or if a sidebar link does not resolve to an English page. Run it after adding or translating pages.

Sync into openchamber-website

openchamber-website renders/deploys docs via Starlight in apps/docs.

After docs content updates here:

1. copy packages/docs/content/docs/* -> openchamber-website/apps/docs/src/content/docs/* (this is recursive, so locale folders like uk/ and zh-cn/ carry over with no extra steps)
2. map packages/docs/sidebar.config.json into openchamber-website/apps/docs/astro.config.mjs sidebar (the translations maps carry over as-is)
3. run docs checks/build in website repo

Automation support exists in .github/workflows/docs-source.yml (release/manual packaging of docs source artifact).