Contentlayer CLI

The Contentlayer CLI enables you to transform your content into data.

#Usage

contentlayer <command> [options]

To get a list of all commands, you can run contentlayer with the --help flag:

contentlayer --help

Which will produce an output that looks like this:

━━━ Contentlayer CLI - 0.0.34 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  $ contentlayer <command>

━━━ General commands ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  contentlayer build [-c,--config #0] [--clearCache] [--verbose]
    Transforms your content into static data

  contentlayer dev [-c,--config #0] [--clearCache] [--verbose]
    Same as "contentlayer build" but with watch mode

You can also print more details about any of these commands by calling them
with the `-h,--help` flag right after the command name.

#Commands

#build

contentlayer build [options]

Transforms content into data objects that your pages and components can consume. These objects are written to files in the .contentlayer/generated directory.

#dev

contentlayer dev [options]

Runs a build, then listens for changes to your content files, rebuilding after each change.

#Options

The following options are available to run with each command.

#config (alias: -c)

Use a custom config file path. Both contentlayer.config.ts and contentlayer.config.js work by default.

#clearCache

Clears the .contentlayer/generated directory before running the specified command.

#verbose

Adds more detailed output when running a command.

#help

Generates usage instructions and options for the CLI. Does not require an associated command.

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