Version control your backend

Sanity is configured and customized entirely in code meaning you can version control your backend and store it in git just like your frontend. No more GUI

Real-time collaboration

Our dynamic React-based editing environment is fully real-time; every keystroke is stored and shared in an instant. It also tracks changes, retains a detailed history, and offers one-click restores.

Respond to editor needs

You have the freedom to structure Sanity Studio however you like. Use React patterns to group content types in meaningful ways, hide the stuff you don’t use every day, combine rich document list-views from any field, and brand the studio in your own image.

Reuse content across multiple channels

You don’t have to get by with managing content in different places. We provide scalable storage, flexible APIs, and best-in-class tools for structuring content so you can build exactly what you need, then fetch and query it for any channel you like.

Open source

The Sanity Studio ships as an open-source single page React app. Install plugins from npm or build your own. You can also integrate Sanity in your own applications.

Easily combine rich-text with data

Sanity treats your content as data, and data as content. There’s no HTML, just JSON from beginning to end. Add semantic metadata to any field, annotate any text or inline object, and access everything from an edge-cached global CDN.

Enhance content through third-party APIs

You can connect Sanity with API-based 3rd party services for better content workflows. Send content back and forth between services places like Slack and Hubspot to get more done and reduce management tasks.

Iterate faster

Sanity’s flexible modeling and UI customization capabilities let you iterate quickly and evolve as you go. So you can reduce your time to market and work with content from day one.

Serve content from a global CDN

Your content lives on a fully-managed data store hosted in the cloud and a global asset CDN. So you can focus on building great content and experiences instead of worrying about servers, space and bandwidth.

React is the leading JavaScript library for building highly interactive online experiences. It popularized the now ubiquitous idea of using components to structure an app and provides a well-known API for managing state in your application.

Ultimately, this gives React the power to control what is rendered on the screen based on how state changes. This interactivity and composability make React the perfect choice for building a CMS.

In a React CMS, React acts as the bridge between the raw database servers and the user interface an editor sees. React can react to changes in the user interface or the database and then take a related action.

Imagine you complete your next great blog post and hit publish. React is responsible for reacting to this publish event and then doing something like updating the document status to published. React will also then handle passing this changed document status onto the database itself.