blume

name	blume
description	Build and maintain documentation sites with Blume, the markdown-first docs framework on Astro and Vite. Use when working in a project that depends on `blume`, when scaffolding or configuring a docs site, writing Markdown/MDX content, tuning navigation/search/theming/SEO/AI features, running the `blume` CLI (init, dev, build, eject), or editing `blume.config.ts` and `meta.ts` files.

Blume

Blume is an open-source, markdown-first documentation framework built on Astro and Vite. Drop Markdown or MDX into a folder, run blume dev, and get a production-grade docs site — navigation, search, theming, Open Graph images, and a rich component library — with no app boilerplate to write or maintain.

The core idea: the framework is the template. There's no starter to clone and no project to own before you've written a word. The only thing you touch is your content. When you outgrow the defaults, you add configuration one file at a time — and you can blume eject to a plain Astro project the day you want full control.

What makes it different

• Fast by default — Static HTML on Astro/Vite. The core theme ships no client framework JS so pages score well on Core Web Vitals out of the box. You opt into server features only when you need them.
• AI-ready out of the box — Emits llms.txt/llms-full.txt, serves any page's raw Markdown by appending .md to its URL, publishes a JSON docs API (/api/docs/…) described by an OpenAPI document at /openapi.json, offers Copy as Markdown and Open in chat on every page, and can host an optional Ask AI assistant or an MCP server so coding agents read your docs directly.
• Zero configuration — even the template — A folder of docs is a complete project. Navigation is inferred from files, search works in dev and production with no hosted service, and theming is a handful of tokens.
• Type-safe to the core — blume.config.ts and every meta.ts are real TypeScript, validated by a schema and authored with defineConfig and defineMeta. Your editor autocompletes options and catches mistakes before a build.

Quickstart

Blume needs Node.js 22.12 or newer. From an empty or existing project:

npm i blume      # install the package
blume init       # scaffold: docs/index.mdx + blume.config.ts
blume dev        # dev server with hot reload
blume build      # static HTML to dist/, with a local search index

Blume works with any package manager and never requires you to set up Astro or Tailwind yourself.

Writing a page

Every page is Markdown or MDX with a little frontmatter. The title and description render as the page heading and intro automatically; built-in components (callouts, cards, tabs, steps, and more) need no imports.

---
title: Introduction
description: Welcome to my docs.
---

Welcome! Use **Markdown** and built-in components — no imports required:

:::note
Blume ships callouts, cards, tabs, steps, and more.
:::

Navigation, search, and page metadata are inferred from your files as you add them.

What's included

• Components — callouts, cards, steps, tabs, accordions, badges, file trees, and parameter tables, usable in MDX with no imports.
• Local search — Orama in dev and production; Pagefind is one flag away for large sites. No hosted index.
• AI — llms.txt, raw Markdown URLs, a JSON docs API with an OpenAPI description, Copy as Markdown, Open in chat, an Ask AI assistant, and an MCP server endpoint served by the docs site itself.
• Navigation — inferred from files, refined with meta.ts or config.
• SEO — metadata, Open Graph images, RSS feeds, and JSON-LD.
• Customization — component overrides, React islands, custom pages, theme tokens, and a source-component registry via blume add.
• Eject — blume eject produces a standalone Astro project that still uses the blume package.

How it works

The Blume CLI discovers your content, builds a content graph, and generates a hidden Astro project under .blume/ that it drives for dev and build. The generated runtime is an implementation detail — you write Markdown, Blume handles the rest — until you choose to eject and own it.

Full documentation

This is a high-level overview. For complete, authoritative docs — configuration reference, every CLI command and flag, component APIs, content authoring, navigation, search, SEO, AI features, theming, and deployment — read the docs/ directory bundled inside the installed blume package.

Locate the package first — it is not always at the repository root. In a workspace monorepo (pnpm especially), blume is installed in the depending workspace's node_modules (e.g. apps/docs/node_modules/blume/docs), not the root. From the package that depends on blume, this prints the exact location:

node -e "console.log(require.resolve('blume/package.json'))"

The docs sit in docs/ next to that package.json. Start with docs/index.mdx (Introduction) and docs/01-quickstart.mdx, then browse the configuration/, content/, reference/, and advanced/ sections for specifics.