# Alinea

Git-based headless CMS for Next.js that stores every entry as a JSON file in the project repository.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/alinea/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://alineacms.com
- repository: https://github.com/alineacms/alinea
- docs: https://alineacms.com/docs
- x: https://twitter.com/alineacms

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: alineacms
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2022
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: headless-cms
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: sqlite
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: yes

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: npm install alinea, then npx alinea init

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-06-26

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 854
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 1897
- contributors: 12
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 3
- dependentPackages: 3

### Sources

- urls: https://alineacms.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/alineacms/alinea (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/alineacms/alinea/blob/main/readme.md (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alineacms/alinea/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/alineacms/alinea (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://github.com/alineacms/alinea/blob/main/readme.md (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/alineacms/alinea/blob/main/readme.md (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://alineacms.com/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-23)
- databases: https://github.com/alineacms/alinea/blob/main/readme.md (read 2026-10-23)
- adminUi: https://github.com/alineacms/alinea/blob/main/readme.md (read 2026-10-23)
- i18n: https://github.com/alineacms/alinea/blob/main/readme.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/alineacms/alinea (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alineacms/alinea/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/alineacms/alinea/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/alineacms/alinea/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/alineacms/alinea/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/alinea (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/alineacms/alinea (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/alineacms/alinea/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/alinea (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/alinea (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Alinea is a headless CMS for Next.js. Content types are defined in TypeScript in a `cms.ts` file, and each entry is stored as a JSON file in the project's git repository. Editors work in a dashboard that ships with the site, and the search index for that dashboard is kept in SQLite. Pages query their content in server components, with results typed from the schema.

## Worth knowing

Alinea Cloud is a hosted option next to the open source package: the README offers it as an alternative to running the backend on your own database, and says it handles sign-in and publishing. The main-branch README documents a preview line whose quick start installs the preview tag of the npm package.

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