Concatenate values in preview title & singleton page best practices

Question 1: Concatenating values in preview titles

Absolutely! You can concatenate values in the preview title using the prepare function. Here's how to merge your number with the title:

preview: {
  select: {
    title: 'title',
    number: 'number'
  },
  prepare({title, number}) {
    return {
      title: `${number} - ${title}`
    }
  }
}

This will give you exactly what you want: "172 - Il faut que tu ruines tout" appearing in the document list. The prepare function lets you transform any selected fields before display, so you can concatenate, format, or manipulate the values however you need.

You can also add subtitles, media, or other fields:

preview: {
  select: {
    title: 'title',
    number: 'number',
    media: 'image'
  },
  prepare({title, number, media}) {
    return {
      title: `${number} - ${title}`,
      subtitle: 'Episode',
      media: media
    }
  }
}

Question 2: Singleton documents

I hear you – the singleton pattern does feel a bit involved! Unfortunately, yes, the manual configuration approach is the standard way in Sanity v3. You need to configure three things in your sanity.config.js:

1. Structure builder to create a direct link
2. Template filtering to hide it from the "New document" menu
3. Document actions to remove duplicate/delete options

However, there's good news: you can use the singleton-tools plugin which handles all this configuration automatically. It's much less convoluted:

npm install @sanity/singleton-tools

Then in your config:

import {singletonTools} from '@sanity/singleton-tools'

export default defineConfig({
  // ... other config
  plugins: [
    singletonTools(),
  ],
})

This plugin wraps up all that boilerplate into a simpler interface. The manual approach gives you more control, but for most use cases, the plugin is the way to go and makes singletons much more straightforward to work with.