Silica Docs

Welcome to Silica

Publish Obsidian-flavored markdown vaults as polished websites.

Silica turns a folder of Markdown files into a fast, searchable website. You keep writing in Obsidian-style syntax; Silica handles the navigation, search, links between pages, and hosting.

What you get

  • Obsidian syntax — wikilinks, callouts, embeds, highlights, comments, block links, and tags
  • A polished reading experience — sidebar navigation, full-text search, table of contents, and backlinks
  • Dark mode out of the box
  • Optional access control — gate your site behind Google sign-in
  • Self-hosting — deploy anywhere that runs a Node container

Quick example

Your project stays small — you only ever edit Markdown and one config file:

content/          # your Markdown vault
public/           # static files (favicon, etc.)
silica.config.ts  # site settings
package.json

Run silica dev, edit Markdown, and the site updates as you type:

TypeScript
import { defineConfig } from "@silicajs/core";

export default defineConfig({
  title: "My Knowledge Base",
  description: "Team docs powered by Silica",
  theme: "default",
});

This very site is a Silica vault — it is the Markdown in docs/content/, published with Silica.

Documentation map

Getting started

Writing content

Site features

Publishing

Backlinks