contentlayer

Contentlayer

Contentlayer transforms content (e.g. Markdown or CMS content) into data you can easily import in your application.

NOTE: Contentlayer is still under heavy development and shouldn't be used in production yet.

Features

• Supported content sources:
  • Local content (Markdown, MDX, JSON, YAML)
  • Contentful
  • Sanity
• Simple but powerful schema DSL to design your content model
• Auto-generated TypeScript types based on your content model (e.g. frontmatter)

Roadmap

• More content sources:
  • Notion
  • GraphCMS
• Incremental data fetching

Usage with Next.js

Install dependencies

• Create contentlayer.config.ts file. Example

import { defineDocument, fromLocalContent } from 'contentlayer/source-files'
import highlight from 'rehype-highlight'

export const Post = defineDocument(() => ({
  name: 'Post',
  filePathPattern: `**/*.md`,
  fields: {
    title: {
      type: 'string',
      description: 'The title of the post',
      required: true,
    },
    date: {
      type: 'date',
      description: 'The date of the post',
      required: true,
    },
  },
  computedFields: {
    slug: { type: 'string', resolve: (_) => _._id.replace('.md', '') },
  },
}))

export default fromLocalContent({
  contentDirPath: 'posts',
  schema: [Post],
  markdown: { rehypePlugins: [highlight] },
})

Usage via CLI

Developing Contentlayer

git clone --recurse-submodules git://github.com/schickling/contentlayer.git
yarn install
yarn build