Building a Blog with Content Collections
How content-collections turns a folder of MDX files into typed data — and why that's a nicer DX than stringly-typed frontmatter.
by Admin
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Content Collections
content-collections reads every .mdx file in a directory, validates the frontmatter against a Zod schema, and exposes the result as typed imports.
What you write
---
title: My Post
date: 2026-08-26
tags: [engineering]
author: admin
---What you get
A fully-typed Post object: post.title, post.date, post.tags, plus the compiled mdxCode. IDE autocomplete included.
Why it beats stringly-typed frontmatter
No more post.frontmatter.title chains or runtime crashes when a field is missing.