@tomerlichtash/md-collections

Directory of markdown → validated typed entries. The Astro-defineCollection half, framework-free: id from the filename, frontmatter parsed with gray-matter, validated by an injected schema. Synchronous on purpose — works inside a unified pipeline.

import { loadCollection } from '@tomerlichtash/md-collections';

const participants = loadCollection({
  dir: 'content/participants',
  schema: participantSchema, // anything with .parse() — zod satisfies, zod not a dep
});
// → [{ id: 'ada-quill', data: {...}, body: '...', filePath: '...' }, ...]

Layouts

• flat (default): <dir>/<id>.md
• nested-locale: <dir>/<id>/index.<locale>.md — one merged entry per id; a frontmatter field equal across locales stays scalar, a differing one becomes Record<locale, value> (e.g. name: { en: 'Rio Marsh', fr: 'Rio Marche' })

A file that fails the schema throws — validation failures surface at load time, not later in the build. Nothing here is entity-specific: use it for pages, posts, sources, any collection. Feed the output to @tomerlichtash/md-registry when the collection is people.