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Contentlayer vs Velite vs next-mdx-remote 2026: Which MDX Content Pipeline Should You Use in Next.js?
A practical 2026 comparison of the three ways to turn Markdown/MDX into content in a Next.js app — Contentlayer (type-safe, build-time content-as-data that generates typed objects from your files, now living on through the community contentlayer2 fork), Velite (the modern successor: Zod-schema validation, typed JSON output, and built-in image and asset handling, framework-agnostic), and next-mdx-remote (compile MDX from any source — filesystem, CMS, or database — at build or request time, including an RSC entry point). Type safety, build speed, image handling, dynamic content sources, App Router support, and which one to build your blog, docs, or marketing site on.