First Look at Velite: The New Content Layer?

Velite is a lightweight, file-based content layer built on top of Zod, designed to replace complex solutions like Contentlayer (now discontinued). It turns Markdown/MDX into strongly-typed JSON data.

Why use it?

Type Safety: Uses Zod schemas to validate and type content structure (e.g., ensuring a slug is always a string).

Simple Setup: Define your content schemas in velite.config.js and run the CLI.

Agnostic: Works great with Next.js, Astro, or any React framework.

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// velite.config.js snippetdefineCollection({  name: "Post",  schema: s.object({    slug: s.slug(),    title: s.string().max(99),    content: s.mdx(),  }),});