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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 database
• Content is fully typed

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 dev

Start configuring types and fields →

Configure Alinea in cms.ts

import {Config, Field} from 'alinea'
const BlogPost = Config.document('Blog post', {
 fields: {
 title: Field.text('Blog entry title'),
 body: Field.richText('Body text')
 }
})
const Blog = Config.document('Blog', {
 contains: [BlogPost]
})

Type options and fields →

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

import {Query} from 'alinea'
console.log(
 await cms.get({
 type: Blog,
 select: {
 title: Blog.title,
 posts: Query.children({
 type: BlogPost,
 select: {
 title: BlogPost.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 →

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

Setup your backend →

Have a question or an idea? Found a bug? Read how to contribute.