About Nextra
Nextra was initially created by Vercel  members Shu Ding  and Paco Coursey  in 2020. Since 2021, Yixuan Xu  contributed tremendously to the project.
In 2022, Dimitri Postolov  from The Guild  joined the core team to help with the development of Nextra 2.
In 2024 Nextra 3 was released, current primary maintainer Dimitri Postolov fully developed it, and Oscar Xie  actively contributed  to this release.
In 2025 Nextra 4 with App Router  support was released, Dimitri Postolov fully developed it too.
Team
Currently, the project is maintained by Dimitri Postolov. You can check out the full list of contributors  on GitHub.
Credits
Nextra is powered by these incredible open source projects:
- https://reactjs.org 
- https://nextjs.org 
- https://turbo.build 
- https://mdxjs.com 
- https://pnpm.io 
- https://tailwindcss.com 
- https://github.com/pacocoursey/next-themes 
- https://github.com/shikijs/shiki 
- https://github.com/cloudcannon/pagefind 
- https://github.com/atomiks/rehype-pretty-code 
- https://github.com/Brooooooklyn/simple-git 
- https://github.com/francoismassart/eslint-plugin-tailwindcss 
Design Assets
Feel free to use the Nextra logo and other assets in your project. But please don’t modify the logo, and don’t use the logo to represent your project or product.
| Name | Description | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Icon | Useful for favicons, app icons, link icons, etc. |  |
| Logo | Full Nextra logo |  |
| Social Card | The Nextra social card |  |
License
The Nextra project and themes are licensed under the MIT license .