Filtering a reference field in GROQ and using the `sanity-micro-client` package for live preview in Next.js.

Morning! Quick question:
Is it possible to filter a reference field in GROQ?

*[_type == "post" && category->slug == "methods"]

Trying to do something like ^ where

category

is a reference in

post

and I’m trying to match the slug 🤔

Yes, that works.

If your

slug

field on the

category

reference is a

slug

type, you need to do

category->slug.current

.

Ahahaha thanks, that was close 😄

btw I checked out your `sanity-micro-client`package but I don’t think it’s on npm

was trying to get live preview on Next.js the other day

Yes, I haven’t published it because I wasn’t sure anyone would be interested. 😅

Ah I found it while searching through Slack here lol

If you want to use it, I can publish it for you.

Happy to. 🙂

Are you using it a lot in your projects? I was intrigued by the idea of not adding client code like

next-sanity

, but as a noob I’m not yet sure what the limitations of this wrapper is. For example I see the query conditions being stitched with

&&

, which seems like it restricts other types of queries

I took a look at the source code and was thinking of using a less opinionated version of it, since you did add some helpful utils around drafts

I’m using it in all my Sanity projects, yes. 🙂

What I like about the conditions stitching is it makes queries very obvious, especially when you start having a lot of conditions.

And you can still use `||`:

I’m not pushing you to use it though, you do you. 😄 You can also copy and paste the code or something.

Ah, for long queries I’ve setup Prettier so it formats, and Groq highlighting in VScode (which requires `groq``` strings)

I will prob end up copy pasting 😛

thanks for offering to publish it tho

Ah yes, I see. I’m personally not a fan of super huge query strings like that. I do like that my helper breaks it in sensible parts (the conditions, the fields, the order, the slicing, etc.). 🙂