nangio2019 / alinea

Content management for the modern web

Current status: expect alpha software and out of date docs.

Alinea is a modern content management system.

• Content is stored in flat files and committed to your repository
• Content is easily queryable through an in-memory SQLite database
• Content is fully typed

Get started

Install alinea in your project directory

npm install alinea

Initialize alinea's config file

npx alinea init

Open the dashboard to have a look around

npx alinea serve

Start configuring types and fields →

Examples

• Next.js Blog Starter

Configure

Configure alinea in alinea.config.tsx

const BlogPost = alinea.type('Blog post', {
  title: alinea.text('Blog entry title'),
  body: alinea.richText('Body text')
})

Type options and fields →

Query

Retrieve content fully-typed and filter, order, limit and join as needed.
Select only the fields you need.

import {initPages} from '@alinea/content/pages'
const pages = initPages()
console.log(
  await pages
    .whereType('BlogPost')
    .where(post => post.author.is('Me'))
    .select(post => ({title: post.title}))
)

See the full api →

Content is available during static site generation and when server side querying.
Content is bundled with your code and can be queried with zero network overhead.

How alinea bundles content →

Deploy anywhere

Alinea supports custom backends that can be hosted as a simple Node.js process or on serverless runtimes.

Setup your backend →