← All projects

Nextra

Make beautiful websites with Next.js & MDX

Dev Toolsstatic-site-generatornextjsmdxmarkdowndocumentationopen-sourcejamstack
Nextra screenshot

About

Nextra is a static site generation framework built on top of Next.js that enables developers to create documentation sites, blogs, and static websites using Markdown and MDX. It provides built-in features like full-text search, syntax highlighting, i18n support, and automatic optimization of links and images. Nextra is designed to be simple yet flexible, with file-system routing and customizable themes.

Problem

Setting up a content-rich static website with Next.js requires significant boilerplate and configuration for common features like search, syntax highlighting, and i18n.

For

developers building documentation sites, blogs, or static websites with Next.js

How it works

Nextra wraps Next.js with file-system routing conventions and MDX support, automatically handling link/image optimization, full-text search indexing at build time, and theme customization.

Business model

open-source

Status

launched

Similar projects