Community digest: Custom icons, Portable Text, Gatsby, and Tailwind (#4)

In this first edition of the weekly community digest, we'll hear about custom icons, the power of Portable Text, and a few nice starters.

Knut Melvær

Building the official Las Vegas Alexa skill (Sanity User Group SF Meetup)

We're hosting a meetup in the Bay area on February 5th. Learn how the official Las Vegas Alexa skill is powered by structured content. And how to customize author experiences inside Sanity Studio.

Knut Melvær

We're hiring: Are you our new Engineering Manager?

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to work with our team in Oslo, running the daily operations of our developers.

Simen Svale

Introducing Squizzy: Our totally serverless Kahoot clone powered by Sanity.io

We built a serverless quiz game that you can deploy and customize yourself. You know, for fun!

Even Westvang and 2 others

Better ContentOps with Google Analytics right inside the Sanity Studio

Get the numbers where you're working. Up your ContentOps game with Google Analytics right inside the Sanity Studio.

Even Westvang and 1 other

Preview Anything: Introducing Views and Split Panes

With custom views and split panes, you can now create your own document previews inside the Sanity Studio.

Even Westvang and 1 other

Introducing environment variable support for Sanity Studio

Better continous integration (CI) with new environment variable support for the Sanity Studio

Even Westvang

Introducing Glush: a robust, human readable, top-down parser compiler

Glush is a new parser compiler based on Glushkov’s construction algorithm – . It offers a human readable grammar, is naturally top-down and maintains worst case cubic performance for even the most ambiguous grammars.

Magnus Holm

Try Condé Nast UK’s asset management tool for Sanity Studio

Love Magazine have more than 30.000 photos and needed better asset management. Try out the asset manager Robin Pyon built for them with multiple views, sorting and batch deletion.

Knut Melvær

Introducing: Pluggable asset sources for Sanity Studio!

We’re happy to announce the new extension point for asset sources. Add new sources as plugins, or build your own. Also, we’re throwing a competition for the most useful and most interesting asset source plugins.

Even Westvang

Play with JSON down at the GROQ Arcade

Now you can run GROQ in the browser to quickly fit JSON data to what you need.

Even Westvang

Boost editor workflows with our new Initial Values

Give your editors a head start with Initial Values for Sanity Studio. Prefill fields with minimal configuration, create multiple templates for quick document creation, fetch content from external APIs and put it in new documents.

Even Westvang and 2 others

Migrating the Sanity.io codebase from Flow to TypeScript

We recently migrated the @sanity-packages written with Flow to TypeScript. It was an interesting journey and we'd like to share some experiences about how we ended up (re)configuring our build pipeline, how we dealt with CSS modules, and how we managed to keep focus on compatibility in order to lay a solid foundation for the future of the Sanity.io codebase.

Bjørge Næss

Introducing the Sanity source plugin for Gridsome

With our new source plugin for the Vue.js based static site generator Gridsome, you can now build fast by default websites powered by structured content. The plugin gives you fast and frugal builds. With watchMode you get low latency real-time content previews while you develop, without having to save or publish.

Knut Melvær and 2 others

JAMstack Shortcuts: Sanity + Stackbit

We're happy to announce that you now can launch complete JAMstack projects with Sanity using Stackbit.

Even Westvang and 1 other

The Shadow Worrier: For a Future of Only Delightful API Surprises

We needed a way to introduce changes in our APIs without breaking people’s code. So we made The Shadow Worrier. Here’s the story of how it works and why we made it.

Simen Svale

New Guide: Learn how to style Sanity Studio

Learn how to style Sanity Studio with your own colors, fonts, and logo with our new guide.

Knut Melvær

Taking Sanity.io to the next level

Announcing our latest fundraising, our new office in San Francisco, and joining the Heavybit accelerator.

Magnus Hillestad

Founders of Netlify, Gatsby.js, and Sanity.io: We need to talk about content

The videos from our "We need to talk about content" August meetup at Heavybit is up. Watch the founders of Netlify, Gatsby, and Sanity.io discuss the future of content on the web.

Knut Melvær

Meet our new team members

Adding more people to our team at Sanity.io is one of the most important things we do as a startup. We are pleased to welcome Victoria, Magnus, Ørjan, and Taran to the team!

Øyvind Rostad