Blazing fast development with Gatsby and Sanity.io

Releasing the Gatsby Source plugin and example project with real-time content preview in watch mode

Knut Melvær

Sanity.io on the devmode.fm podcast

Our developer advocate Knut Melvær appeared on the devmode.fm podcast and talked Sanity.io with Andrew Welch, Patrick Harrington, and Lauren Dorman

Knut Melvær

2018: In review

2018: The year we got to know you! We deeply appreciate each and every question and piece of feedback you have given us these past few months. Many of the highlights mentioned in this post are direct responses to discussions we've had with you.

Even Westvang

Introducing the new Editor for Portable Text

With the new editor for Portable Text, developers get a pocket full of new features for configuring and customizing a productive editing environment for deeply typed content.

Even Westvang

How we blog

In this post we give a quick summary of how, where, and why we blog at Sanity.io.

Knut Melvær

Welcoming our new engineering manager, Jemmima!

We’re delighted to announce that Jemmima Knight is joining Sanity.io as Engineering Manager.

Magnus Hillestad

Importing markdown content into Sanity

How to migrate remark-markdown from a Gatsby blog to Sanity.io’s content backend.

Knut Melvær

Creating Custom Content Blocks: Wordpress Gutenberg vs. Sanity

The new Gutenberg editor for Wordpress comes with the ability to create custom content blocks using React. Let’s compare how easy it is to make those in Sanity.

Knut Melvær

First class responsive video support with the new Mux plugin

When building Sanity, we emphasized building a flexible image pipeline to transform and re-crop your images. We have no ambition of doing the same for video.

Knut Melvær

Our article on succeeding with headless CMS projects is up on Smashing Magazine!

Using a Structured Content Management System is a great way to free your content from presentation and web centric distribution. But how to go about it? Our developer advocate Knut Melvær has written an article for Smashing Magazine to suggest some overarching strategies, with some concrete real-world examples on how to think about working with structured content.

Even Westvang

Simen Svale Skogsrud explaining Headless CMS on The Cherryleaf Podcast

Listen to the interview The Cherryleaf Podcast did with co-founder and CTO Simen Svale Skogsrud on what a Headless CMS is. 🎙

Knut Melvær

Indexing in Algolia using serverless functions (and observables!)

With Sanity’s powerful export API it's easy to make a small serverless function in order to index all your content in Algolia for the times you want to harness its search capabilities. It's also a nice way to learn about observables in JavaScript.

Knut Melvær

Say hi 👋 to the new delightful Sanity Studio

It's one year since we launched and we are celebrating with a new fresh redesign of Sanity Studio.

Even Westvang

Getting started with Sanity as a headless CMS

Sanity is the perfect companion for when you want to get started with the JAMstack, or just need API for your project. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to get started with using Sanity — from configuring the React editor with JavaScript, to querying the API and migrating the content datasets.

Knut Melvær

3 simple things in GROQ to supercharge your frontends

GROQ is Sanity’s graph-oriented query language. It lets you do rapid development with structured content. As soon as you create a document on the backend, you can instantly query it. Here's 3 simple things you can do in GROQ to get you started.

Knut Melvær

5 neat tricks you can make the Sanity CLI do

The Sanity CLI can do many things, but here are five of them you should check out.

Knut Melvær

Structure Sanity Studio to Your Heart’s Content!

We have launched structure builder for Sanity Studio. Now you can customize how content types and documents should be listed out.

Even Westvang

User stories: Urban Sharing

Urban Sharing is a software platform for forward-thinking mobility solutions. They use Sanity to support their software platform that powers world-class bike sharing systems.

Knut Melvær

Why portable text is awesome and you totally want it in your CMS

Portable text is a better way to handle content in your CMS. Here's why.

Knut Melvær

Exporting your structured content as CSV using JQ in the command line

The shell tool jq is awesome for dealing with JSON-data. It can also transform it into handy .csv-files, ready for all your spreadsheet wrangling needs. This tutorial use Sanity.io as a backend.

Knut Melvær