Configuration

You can configure Nuxt Content with the content property in your nuxt.config file.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    // My custom configuration
  }
})

api

• Type: Record<string, any>
• Default: { baseURL: '/api/_content' }

Change default behaviour of Content APIs.

• baseURL: change the base URL of Content APIs. Default is /api/_content.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    api: {
      baseURL: '/api/_my_content'
    }
  }
})

contentHead

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Enable content head feature. If enabled, module will automatically use useContentHead composable to inject content head data to your page.

defaultLocale

• Type: string
• Default: undefined

Default locale for top level contents. Module will use first locale code from locales array if this option is not defined.

documentDriven

• Type: boolean | object
• Default: false

Toggles the document-driven mode.

false will disable the feature completely.

true will enable the feature with these defaults:

{
  // Will fetch navigation, page and surround.
  navigation: true,
  page: true,
  surround: true,
  // Will fetch `content/_theme.yml` and put it in `globals.theme` if present.
  globals: {
    theme: {
      where: {
        _id: 'content:_theme.yml'
      },
      without: ['_']
    }
  },
  // Will use `theme` global to search for a fallback `layout` key.
  layoutFallbacks: ['theme'],
  // Will inject `[...slug].vue` as the root page.
  injectPage: true
}

markdown

• anchorLinks: Control anchor link generation, by default it generates anchor links for h2, h3 and h4 heading
  • Type: boolean | object
  • Default: { depth: 4, exclude: [1] }
  • Values:
    • false will disable link generation.
    • true will enable link generation for all headings.
    • object will customize the link generation.

    Option	Type	Description
    depth	number	Sets the maximal depth for anchor link generation.
    exclude	number[]	A list of headings to exclude from link generation.

• mdc: Whether MDC syntax should be supported or not.
  • Type: boolean
  • Default: true
• remarkPlugins: A list of remark plugins to use.
  • Type: object
  • Default: {}
  • Example
  nuxt.config.ts

  export default defineNuxtConfig({
    content: {
      markdown: {
        // Object syntax can be used to override default options
        remarkPlugins: {
          // Override remark-emoji options
          'remark-emoji': {
            emoticon: true
          },
          // Disable remark-gfm
          'remark-gfm': false,
          // Add remark-oembed
          'remark-oembed': {
            // Options
          }
        },
      }
    }
  })
  

• rehypePlugins: A list of rehype plugins to use.
  • Type: string[]
  • Default: []
  • Example:
  nuxt.config.ts

  export default defineNuxtConfig({
    content: {
      markdown: {
        rehypePlugins: [
          'rehype-figure'
        ]
      }
    }
  })
  

• toc: Control behavior of Table of Contents generation.
  • Type: object
  • Default: { depth: 2, searchDepth: 2 }
    • depth: Maximum heading depth to include in the table of contents.
    • searchDepth: Maximum depth of nested tags to search for heading.
• tags: Tags will be used to replace markdown components and render custom components instead of default ones.
  • Type: object
  nuxt.config.ts

  export default defineNuxtConfig({
    content: {
      markdown: {
        tags: {
          p: 'MyCustomParagraph'
        }
      }
    }
  })
  

highlight

• Type: false | object

Nuxt Content uses Shiki to provide syntax highlighting for ProsePre and ProseCodeInline.

• highlight.theme

Theme can be specified by a single string but also supports an object with multiple themes.

This option is compatible with Color Mode module.

If you are using multiple themes, it's recommended to always have a default theme specified.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    highlight: {
      // Theme used in all color schemes.
      theme: 'github-light',
      // OR
      theme: {
        // Default theme (same as single string)
        default: 'github-light',
        // Theme used if `html.dark`
        dark: 'github-dark',
        // Theme used if `html.sepia`
        sepia: 'monokai'
      }
    }
  }
})

• highlight.langs

By default, module loads couple of languages for syntax highlighter: ['json', 'js', 'ts', 'html', 'css', 'vue', 'shell', 'mdc', 'md', 'yaml']

If you plan to use code samples of other languages, you need to define the language in these options.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    highlight: {
      langs: [
        'c',
        'cpp',
        'java'
      ]
    }
  }
})

If you wish to add highlighting for an unsupported language, you can do so by loading the grammar file for the language.

import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    highlight: {
      langs: [
        // Read more about Shiki languages: https://shiki.style/guide/load-lang
        JSON.parse(
          readFileSync('./shiki/languages/gdscript.tmLanguage.json', 'utf-8'),
        ),
      ],
    },
  },
})

Read more about adding languages in the Shiki documentation.

ignores

• Type: string[]
• Default: ['\\.', '-']

List of ignore patterns to exclude content from parsing, rendering and watching.

Note that:

• patterns are converted to regular expressions
• . and - prefixed files are ignored by default

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    ignores: [
      'hidden',        // any file or folder that contains the word "hidden"
      '/hidden/',      // any folder that exactly matches the word "hidden"
      '/path/to/file', // any file path matching "/path/to/file"
      '\\.bak$',       // any file with the extension ".bak"
    ]
  }
})

locales

• Type: string[]
• Default: []

List of locale codes. These codes will be used to detect contents locale.

navigation

• Type: false | object
• Default: true

Configure the navigation feature.

Can be set to false to disable the feature completely.

defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    navigation: {
      fields: ['author', 'publishedAt']
    }
  }
})

respectPathCase

• Type: boolean
• Default: false

Whether to respect the case of the file path when generating the route. Defaults to false, which means the route will be generated in lowercase. For example, content/en-US/foo.md will resolve to the en-us/foo path. This may not be what you expect.If set to true, the route will be generated with the same case as the file path. content/en-US/foo.md will resolve to the en-US/foo path.

sources

• Type: Record<string, object>
• Default: {}

Define different sources for contents.

Contents can be located in multiple places, in multiple directories, or in remote git repositories thanks to unstorage.

import { resolve } from "node:path";

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    sources: {
      // overwrite default source AKA `content` directory
      content: {
        driver: 'fs',
        prefix: '/docs', // All contents inside this source will be prefixed with `/docs`
        base: resolve(__dirname, 'content')
      },
      // Additional sources
      fa: {
        prefix: '/fa', // All contents inside this source will be prefixed with `/fa`
        driver: 'fs',
        // ...driverOptions
        base: resolve(__dirname, 'content-fa') // Path for source directory
      },
      github: {
        prefix: '/blog', // Prefix for routes used to query contents
        driver: 'github', // Driver used to fetch contents (view unstorage documentation)
        repo: "<owner>/<repo>",
        branch: "main",
        dir: "content", // Directory where contents are located. It could be a subdirectory of the repository.
        // Imagine you have a blog inside your content folder. You can set this option to `content/blog` with the prefix option to `/blog` to avoid conflicts with local files.
      },
    }
  }
})

watch

• Type: object | false
• Default: { ws: { port: 4000, showURL: false } }

Disable content watcher and hot content reload.

The watcher is a development feature and will not be included in production.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  content: {
    watch: {
      ws: {
        port: 4000,
        showURL: true
      }
    }
  }
})

yaml

• Type: false | object
• Default: {}

Options for yaml parser.

experimental

search

• Type: boolean | undefined
• Default: undefined

Enable search feature.

indexed

• Type: boolean
• Default: true

Enable indexed search. This will generate a search index file that allow faster and more performant search.

ignoredTags

• Type: string[]
• Default: ['style', 'code']

List of tags to ignore when parsing content for the search API response. This is useful to avoid including code snippets in the search results or style that does not provide any useful information.

filterQuery

• Type: QueryBuilderWhere
• Default: {}

Query to ignore when parsing content for the search API response. This is useful to avoid including content that is not meant to be searchable like drafts or private content.

options

• Type: object
• Default:

{
  fields: ['title', 'content', 'titles'],
  storeFields: ['title', 'content', 'titles'],
  searchOptions: {
    prefix: true,
    fuzzy: 0.2,
    boost: {
      title: 4,
      content: 2,
      titles: 1
    }
  }
}

When the indexed search is enabled, this option will automatically configure both the API endpoint and the searchContent composable. For simple search, you will need to pass the options to the searchContent composable.