From 72f7063314b3345e4ee299db9d5d6bb891e8f1fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: andwati <andwatiian@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 19:40:55 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add book, engineering, and writing content handling with MDX
 support

---
 lib/book.ts        | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/engineering.ts | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/mdx.ts         | 24 ++++++++++------------
 lib/writing.ts     | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/engineering.ts
 create mode 100644 lib/writing.ts

diff --git a/lib/book.ts b/lib/book.ts
index e69de29..601e96d 100644
--- a/lib/book.ts
+++ b/lib/book.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import { getMdxContent, MaybeContent } from "./mdx";
+import path from "path";
+import fs from "fs";
+
+export interface Book {
+  title: string;
+  author: string;
+  date: string;
+  rating: number;
+  coverImage: string;
+  spineColor: string;
+  textColor: string;
+  slug: string;
+  summary: string;
+}
+
+export function getAllBooks(): Book[] {
+  return JSON.parse(
+    fs.readFileSync(
+      path.join(process.cwd(), "content", "books", "index.json"),
+      "utf8",
+    ),
+  );
+}
+
+export function getAllSlugs(): string[] {
+  const data = getAllBooks();
+  return data.map((item) => item.slug);
+}
+
+export async function getBook(slug: string): Promise<MaybeContent<Book>> {
+  const book = await getMdxContent<Book>("books", `${slug}.mdx`);
+  if (!book) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  return {
+    ...book,
+  };
+}
diff --git a/lib/engineering.ts b/lib/engineering.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f232eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/engineering.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import path from "path";
+import fs from "fs";
+import { getMdxContent, MaybeContent } from "./mdx";
+
+export interface Build {
+  title: string;
+  description: string;
+  image: string;
+  date: string;
+  url: string;
+  external: boolean;
+  source: string;
+}
+
+export function getAllBuildData(): Build[] {
+  return JSON.parse(
+    fs.readFileSync(
+      path.join(process.cwd(), "content", "engineering", "index.json"),
+      "utf8",
+    ),
+  );
+}
+
+export function getAllSlugs(): string[] {
+  const data = getAllBuildData();
+
+  return data.filter((item) => !item.external).map((item) => item.url);
+}
+
+export async function getBuil(slug: string): Promise<MaybeContent<Build>> {
+  return getMdxContent<Build>("engineering", `${slug}.mdx`);
+}
diff --git a/lib/mdx.ts b/lib/mdx.ts
index 0ed0071..2a67ed7 100644
--- a/lib/mdx.ts
+++ b/lib/mdx.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import remarkGfm from "remark-gfm";
 
 export interface Content<TMetadata = { [key: string]: any }> {
   metadata: TMetadata;
-  content: string;
+  source: string;
 }
 
 export type MaybeContent<TMetadata> = Content<TMetadata> | undefined;
@@ -14,29 +14,27 @@ export async function getMdxContent<TMetadata>(
   ...paths: string[]
 ): Promise<MaybeContent<TMetadata>> {
   const contentPath = path.join(process.cwd(), "content", ...paths);
-
   if (!fs.existsSync(contentPath)) {
     return undefined;
   }
 
-  const content = fs.readFileSync(contentPath, "utf-8");
-
+  const content = fs.readFileSync(contentPath, "utf8");
   const source = await serialize(content, {
     parseFrontmatter: true,
     mdxOptions: {
-      remarkPlugins: [remarkGfm],
       development: false,
+      remarkPlugins: [remarkGfm],
     },
   });
 
+  // Remove the ugly footnotes heading from react-gfm
+  const footnotes =
+    /_jsx\(_components.h2, {.*?children: "Footnotes".*?}\), "\\n", /gs;
+  const hr = ``;
+  const compiledSource = source.compiledSource.replaceAll(footnotes, hr);
 
-  const footnotes =  /_jsx\(_components.h2, {.*?children: "Footnotes".*?}\), "\\n", /gs;
-  const hr = ``
-  const compiledSource = source.compiledSource.replace(footnotes, hr);
-
-  return{
+  return {
     metadata: source.frontmatter as TMetadata,
-    content: compiledSource,
-  }
-  
+    source: compiledSource,
+  };
 }
diff --git a/lib/writing.ts b/lib/writing.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fb6501
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/writing.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import path from "path";
+import fs from "fs";
+import { getMdxContent, MaybeContent } from "./mdx";
+
+export interface DeepDive {
+  title: string;
+  image: string;
+  description: string;
+  links: {
+    label: string;
+    href: string;
+  }[];
+}
+
+export function getDeepDives(): DeepDive[] {
+  return JSON.parse(
+    fs.readFileSync(
+      path.join(process.cwd(), "content", "deep-dives", "index.json"),
+      "utf8"
+    )
+  );
+}
+
+export interface Post {
+  title: string;
+  description: string;
+  image: string;
+  date: string;
+  url: string;
+  external: boolean;
+  source: string;
+}
+
+export function getAllPostData(): Post[] {
+  return JSON.parse(
+    fs.readFileSync(
+      path.join(process.cwd(), "content", "writing", "index.json"),
+      "utf8"
+    )
+  );
+}
+
+export function getAllSlugs(): string[] {
+  const data = getAllPostData();
+
+  return data.filter((item) => !item.external).map((item) => item.url);
+}
+
+export async function getPost(slug: string): Promise<MaybeContent<Post>> {
+  return getMdxContent<Post>("writing", `${slug}.mdx`);
+}