markdownlayer

Markdownlayer

Markdownlayer is a content SDK that validates and transforms your content into type-safe JSON data you can easily import into your application's pages. If you know how to or have used Contentlayer, this is built to replace it.

Getting Started

Explore the example projects, which you can clone to try out locally.

Read the blog.

Features

• Live reload on content changes
• Fast and incremental builds
• Simple but powerful schema DSL to design your content model (validates your content and generates types)
• Auto-generated TypeScript types based on your content model (e.g. frontmatter or CMS schema)

Differences from Contentlayer

• Markdoc support
• The content type is inferred from the extension hence markdown is processed correctly and not forced into MDX.
• Remark GFM, Admonitions, Reading Time, Emoji, and Slug included by default.
• Last update time and author based on Git but can be overridden via frontmatter.
• Supply configuration in next.config.js as an alternative to markdownlayer.config.js.
• Only local content (no notion sources yet).
• Only NextJs support (no Remix yet).
• No JSON/YAML content as they can be loaded directly into the JS/TS code.

Known issues

• Requires ESM because the whole unified/remark/rehype ecosystem moved to ESM-only.
• Due to the ESM-only requirement, there is a webpack warning on build/dev. This will be resolved once next.config.ts is supported in https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/63051, of if there is a new idea before then.

Who is using Markdownlayer?

• maxwellweru.com(Source)
• tingle.software
• falu.io

Are you using Markdownlayer? You can add your page (and repo) to the end of the list via a PR. 🙏