Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more
See the page update next to the form as you type, before saving.
Compose pages from the blocks you define in your schema.
Each publish is a commit, start a new draft from any earlier version.
Translate pages per locale, or single fields with fallbacks.
See the page update next to the form as you type, before saving.
Compose pages from the blocks you define in your schema.
Each publish is a commit, start a new draft from any earlier version.
Translate pages per locale, or single fields with fallbacks.
Like other git-based CMSs, Alinea stores content in your repository. It also publishes without a rebuild, previews drafts with one component and installs four packages.
Every publish is a git commit. Your running site picks up the new content right away instead of waiting for CI. Commits that only change content can skip the build, and pages can be revalidated after each publish.
Add one component to your layout and every page shows drafts while editors type. You don't need preview routes or changes to each component, and server components render the draft on the server.
<body>
{children}
<cms.previews widget />
</body>Installing Alinea adds 4 packages. The other CMSs we measured add between 206 and 954.
Packages and disk size of a clean npm install, excluding React and Next.js. Measured September 2026.
Content is stored as files in git and queried through an SQLite index that is bundled with your site.
Every entry is a JSON file in your repository. Review, branch and roll back content like code.
Query types are inferred from your schema, so there is no generate step.
Content is indexed in SQLite and bundled with your site. The dashboard searches the same index.
Run the backend on your own database with one of eight drivers, or let Alinea Cloud handle it.
The docs ship with the package as Markdown, so AI agents know the API of the installed version.
MIT licensed and developed in the open on GitHub.
Each step happens in your own repository.
const BlogPost = Config.document(
'Blog post', {
fields: {
title: Field.text('Title'),
cover: Field.image('Cover'),
body: Field.richText('Body')
}
})Describe types and fields in TypeScript in your codebase. There are no migrations and no separate admin project.
Editors work in a dashboard generated from your schema, with drafts, previews and media.
Publishing writes a commit to your repository, and your site deploys like any other change.
Query content from server components. Results are typed from your schema, so your editor autocompletes fields and TypeScript reports mistakes.
export default async function Post({params}) {
const {slug} = await params
const post = await cms.get({
type: BlogPost,
url: `/blog/${slug}`,
select: {
title: BlogPost.title,
publishDate: BlogPost.publishDate,
body: BlogPost.body
}
})
return <Article {...post} />
}const post: { title: string publishDate: string body: TextDoc}
The dashboard ships with your app and deploys wherever Next.js runs. You stay in control of authentication and access.
Connect your GitHub repository and invite editors. Cloud handles sign-in and commits published content back to your repository.
Vetra is a Next.js template with Alinea already set up.
Blog with archive
Categories and authors
Built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS
Ask other questions on GitHub.
Not for your content. It is stored as JSON files in your repository, and Alinea builds an SQLite index from those files for querying and search. With Alinea Cloud there is no database to run at all. If you self-host the backend, you do need one for the dashboard's users and roles and for uploads until they are committed: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite or PGlite.
Yes. Alinea is built for the Next.js App Router. You query content directly in server components, and live previews render drafts on the server as editors type.
Yes. The dashboard ships with your Next.js app and deploys wherever Next.js runs. Run the backend yourself on your own database, or let Alinea Cloud handle sign-in and publishing.
They do not have to. Every publish is a git commit and your site picks up the new content without waiting for a build. Content-only commits can skip the rebuild, and static pages can be revalidated after each publish. See instant publishing.
Follow the upgrade guide, which walks through moving an existing 1.x project to 2.0.
Run the init command in a Next.js project to set it up. Alinea is open source and MIT licensed.