How to store page in json?

[alex-eri]

I want to store page attributes outside of MD file and combine data and page types together.

I want to define

---
title: page title
date: 2020-20-20
---

hello
===

world

as something like

{
"title": "page title",
"date": "2020-20-20",
"body": "hello\n===\n\nworld\n"
}

and get content page with toc, navigation, search and etc

[yudin-s]

If you need Nuxt Content page features like TOC, navigation, search sections, and MDC/Markdown parsing, I would keep the body as page content rather than treating it as a plain JSON data record.

A JSON collection is good for structured data, but it will not automatically behave like a parsed Markdown page just because one property contains markdown text.

The most reliable options are:

1. Keep .md files and put structured attributes in frontmatter.
2. Generate .md files from your external JSON source during build/content sync.
3. If JSON must be the source of truth, write a transform step that turns the JSON body into page content before Nuxt Content indexes it.

So this:

{
  "title": "page title",
  "date": "2020-20-20",
  "body": "hello\n===\n\nworld\n"
}

is fine as source data, but I would convert it into markdown/page content before expecting Content features such as TOC/search/navigation. Otherwise you have data, not a Content page.