Parse your project
Analyze Astro routes and content structure automatically. No manual config per file.
Open-source · Astro
Turn your Astro project into a structured content layer.
Frontmatter Core parses your routes, extracts frontmatter and datasets, and produces a normalized JSON representation ready to plug into any CMS — without rewriting your project or giving up Git-based workflows.
What it does
Extract structured data
Convert frontmatter and datasets into a consistent, typed JSON representation.
Adapter layer
Send your content to any CMS or API without modifying source files. Bring your own adapter or use the built-in ones.
Architecture
01
Route parsing
Crawl Astro pages and build a map of your content structure.
02
Frontmatter extraction
Extract metadata, fields and datasets from Markdown and Astro files.
03
JSON IR
Generate a normalized intermediate representation of your content.
04
Adapters
Send your content to any CMS or API without changing your source files.
Why it matters
For developers
- Keep Git-based workflows
- No CMS lock-in
- Work with typed structured data
For teams
- Use any CMS interface
- Decouple content from implementation
- Future-proof architecture
For products
- Reusable content layer
- Multi-channel ready
- Scalable structure
Open-source
Free
Frontmatter Core is open-source and designed as a foundation for modern content architectures. Use it, extend it, build adapters on top of it.