Alinea

Content management for the modern web

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_Current status_: expect alpha software and out of date docs.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

  1. ```sh
  2. npm install alinea
  3. ```

Initialize alinea's config file

  1. ```sh
  2. npx alinea init
  3. ```

Open the dashboard to have a look around

  1. ```sh
  2. npx alinea serve
  3. ```

Start configuring types and fields →

Examples


- Next.js Blog Starter

Configure


Configure alinea in alinea.config.tsx

  1. ```tsx
  2. const BlogPost = alinea.type('Blog post', {
  3.   title: alinea.text('Blog entry title'),
  4.   body: alinea.richText('Body text')
  5. })
  6. ```

Type options and fields →

Query


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

  1. ```tsx
  2. import {initPages} from '@alinea/content/pages'
  3. const pages = initPages()
  4. console.log(
  5.   await pages
  6.     .whereType('BlogPost')
  7.     .where(post => post.author.is('Me'))
  8.     .select(post => ({title: post.title}))
  9. )
  10. ```

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 →