Replacing Contentlayer with Markdownlayer

Content management is an essential aspect of web development, allowing developers to separate code from content and make it easier for non-technical users to update and manage website content. Contentlayer has been a popular library for this purpose, offering features such as content modeling, automatic API generation, and content querying. However, due to its lack of maintenance and increasing number of bugs, developers are now looking for alternatives.

Having experienced several issues with Contentlayer, I decided to write a similar library to solve the problems I had but with a narrower focus. I named it Markdownlayer. It builds upon the concepts of Contentlayer but addresses the issues and provides a simpler, more efficient solution. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of migrating from Contentlayer to Markdownlayer and how it can enhance your web development workflow.

Why not just pick and maintain Contentlayer

I reached out to the maintainer and the requirement was to express interest in the GitHub repository. I decided to read through the codebase and even cloned it to get a better understanding. During the process, I discovered the code base was too complex for me to become a maintainer. I abandoned that effort but still needed a solution.

Why did I need a replacement?

Besides having a recently maintained solution, several issues needed to be resolved. I look through each…