How I'm Using MDX Frontmatter to Scale devportals.tech
Building devportals.tech has been an exercise in practicing what I preach about documentation engineering. One of the most impactful decisions I made early was leveraging MDX frontmatter not just for basic metadata, but as the foundation for scalable content workflows. Here’s how it’s working in practice.
Starting Simple, Scaling Smart
Section titled “Starting Simple, Scaling Smart”When I first set up this Astro Starlight site, I could have just used basic Markdown. But knowing I wanted to build something that demonstrates professional documentation practices, I started with structured frontmatter from day one:
---title: "Content Branching Strategy for Documentation Teams"description: "How to manage documentation releases, staging, and quality control using Git workflows"date: 2025-09-23authors: - name: Joaquin Romotags: - git-workflow - content-management - documentation-strategy - staging---Simple, but it’s already paying dividends.