# The Astro Content Layer

DevFeed: [The Astro Content Layer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-astro-content-layer-3312.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://astro.build/blog/future-of-astro-content-layer/>)

Author: Fred Schott

Published: 2024-06-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The Astro Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-astro-blog.md>)

Topics: [Astro](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/astro.md>), [Content Management System](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cms.md>), [MDX](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mdx.md>), [Markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/markdown.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [libSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/libsql.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Server-side rendering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server-side-rendering.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>), [build performance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-performance.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [astro](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/astro.md>), [build-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-performance.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [content](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/content.md>), [libsql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/libsql.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/series.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [ssr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssr.md>), [typescript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/typescript.md>)

## AI overview

Part 2 of The Future of Astro series presents a planned Content Layer for working with local and remote content sources. It proposes extending Content Collections with a more capable content engine backed by LibSQL (SQLite), enabling larger content sets, file-based caching across builds, faster development and build performance, and more advanced SQL-powered querying.

## Source excerpt

Part two of our series on The Future of Astro, covering our plans for the next evolution of content management in Astro.