Gatsby Site - How to Make Sanity Sort Orders reflected in the Site?

I'm building a Gatsby site, and I'm trying to make it so that the order of items in Sanity becomes the order of items on the live site, so that a non-technical user can change the order. I can sort, and I've built custom sorts using https://www.sanity.io/docs/sort-orders , but I haven't found how to make those sorts reflected in the site. I've found sanity-plugin-order-documents, and that works great for small data sets, and I'm just wondering if there's some kind of query field I can sort by to make the Gatsby site always reflect the current Sanity sort, whether it's by hand through order-documents, a custom sort, or something standard like date. Thanks y'all!

are the items in question being sorted within an array field?

if so, i found that they are returned in the same order you see them on the screen from top to bottom (at least so far)

They're not, they're the top-level items. So far there's just one schema, and I'm trying to sort the items in the schema.

Oh sorry, do you mean sorted within an array field in Gatsby? They are mapped over to display, but not sorted

No worries! My question wasn't clear : )
Trying to figure out if the items you're trying to sort are part of an array schema within Sanity like this:
https://www.sanity.io/docs/array-type
Let's say you're displaying a bunch of cast members on a page with information on a particular film to stay consistent with the docs.

Do do that, you would create a "Cast Members" schema which is made up of a single field - an array of actors.

That creates the UI pictured in said docs where you can drag cast members into a particular order.

When you do that, I've found that the sanity API returns those cast members in the same order that you see within the Studio UI

Does that make sense?

It does, thanks for the clarification. So say I'm trying to do this with my top-level schema, maybe "Movie" in your example. Do I make a wrapper-schema that just contains a single field: an array of Movies?

yep!

Awesome! Thanks man, I appreciate your help.

other more blunt options is adding an "order" field in your existing schema which the user can set. IE 1,2,3,4

and then sorting it on the front end

Yep, that's what order-documents does, I believe

i want to say that might only do it in the sanity studio front end, but didn't read into that much

It does, but then you can set the graphQL query to sort by 'order' and it works

ah nice

Yep! Caveat: I found that the snippet they give on their page didn't work, I had to build mine out in GraphiQL and then it ran fine