Content in git
Every entry is a JSON file in your repository. Review, branch and roll back content like code.
Everything editors need, in your Next.js app
Alinea gives your editors a dashboard with a content tree, live previews, history, translations and a media library, and gives you typed content stored in git.
Alinea 2.0
Navigation
A content tree with overviews
Entries are organized in a tree that follows the structure of your site. Sections with many children open on an overview instead: a table or cards with the columns, filters and sort orders you define in your schema.
Drag entries to reorder them or move them elsewhere
Columns, filters and sort options from your schema
Large sections open on their overview, their tree stays collapsed
Editing
Live preview
The page you are editing renders next to the form and updates as you type, before anything is saved. Previews run on Next.js draft mode, so they show your own pages rendered by your own server components.
Updates on every change, without saving
Preview drafts before they are published
Follows your own routes and layouts
Editing
Pages built from blocks
List fields let editors compose a page from the blocks you define, like a hero, a text section or a product grid. Every block type is part of your schema, so the content you query is typed too.
Add, reorder, copy and fold blocks
Every block type is defined in your schema
The preview shows the page as it is built
Git
Every version in history
Each publish is a commit to your repository, so every entry keeps its earlier versions. The history panel lists who published what and when. Open an earlier version to see it, or start a new draft from it.
Who changed what, and when
Start a draft from any earlier version
Review content changes like code, in git
Content
Translations
Translate whole pages per locale, with each language in its own tree, or keep every locale of a value together in a single field with Field.localiser. Editors switch languages from the header and see which pages still need a translation.
Translated roots with a page per locale
Per-field translations with fallbacks
Shared fields stay the same in every locale
Content
A media library
Editors upload images and files and organize them in folders. Images get a focal point, a blurred placeholder and their dimensions, and can be cropped and scaled down before they are uploaded. Links point to the media entry, so moving or renaming a file does not break them.
Crop, rotate and scale images while uploading
PDFs are compressed and previewed by their first page
Moved and renamed files keep their old URLs
Teams
Roles and permissions
Decide who can create, edit, publish or upload, down to a workspace, root, type, field, entry or locale. Editors see the dashboard their role allows, and during development you can view it as any role.
Rules per workspace, root, type, field, entry and locale
Combine several roles on one user
Manage users in your own backend or in Alinea Cloud
Navigation
Search everything
Find any page, entry or file with ⌘K. Search runs on the same SQLite index your site queries, so results show as you type and include the text of the fields you mark as searchable.
Search across workspaces, roots and media
Full text search in the fields you choose
Results as cards or in a list
Content
Backlinks and URL aliases
Every entry shows which pages link to it, so editors know what a change or a removal affects. Renamed and moved pages keep their old URLs as aliases, so links from elsewhere keep working.
See what links to an entry before you remove it
Old URLs redirect to the new ones
References in other languages are listed too
Developers
Your own views and fields
Add custom fields, panels and overview actions to the dashboard with the same accessible React components it is built from, exported from alinea/components.
Custom fields and views in React
Built on React Aria, accessible by default
Overview actions such as an export button
And also
Typed without codegen
Query types are inferred from your schema, so there is no generate step.
No database server
Content is indexed in SQLite and bundled with your site. Pages query it without a network roundtrip.
Publish without a rebuild
Published content goes live on the next request, no build or redeploy has to finish first.
An accessible dashboard
Keyboard navigation, focus management and screen reader support throughout.
Commit hooks
Rewrite changes before they are committed, or revalidate, notify and deploy after.
Docs for coding agents
The docs ship with the package as Markdown, so AI agents know the API of the installed version.
Self-host or Cloud
Run the backend on your own database, or let Alinea Cloud handle sign-in, media and publishing.
Open source
MIT licensed and developed in the open on GitHub.
Add Alinea to your project
Run the init command in your Next.js app, it sets up the config, the dashboard route and an example schema.