How to Get Started with Sanity and Angular

You're spot on with your intuition! It's definitely the latter – connecting Angular to Sanity is straightforward enough that it hasn't generated as many dedicated starter templates as frameworks like Next.js or React. But that doesn't mean it's not well-supported!

Angular works perfectly well with Sanity because Sanity is a headless CMS with a flexible API-first architecture. You can absolutely use Angular's HttpClient to query Sanity's HTTP API directly with GROQ query strings, or you can use the @sanity/client JavaScript library, which works great in Angular projects since it's framework-agnostic.

Here's the basic approach:

Option 1: Using @sanity/client (recommended)

Install the client library (npm install @sanity/client) and configure it in your Angular service:

import { createClient } from '@sanity/client'

export class SanityService {
  private client = createClient({
    projectId: 'your-project-id',
    dataset: 'production',
    useCdn: true,
    apiVersion: '2025-01-01'
  })

  async getPosts() {
    return this.client.fetch(`*[_type == "post"]`)
  }
}

The client.fetch method accepts GROQ query strings and returns promises, making it easy to integrate with Angular's async patterns. You can also pass parameters to your queries for dynamic filtering.

Option 2: Direct HTTP calls

You can also use Angular's HttpClient to hit Sanity's API endpoints directly if you prefer a lighter approach without additional dependencies.

Sanity actually does have Angular resources! There's a guide on creating a single-page application with Angular and Sanity that walks through the integration. The reason you see fewer Angular examples compared to React/Next.js is mainly due to market trends – those frameworks have larger communities in the JAMstack/headless CMS space, so more community examples emerge naturally.

As for a StackBlitz example – while there isn't an official one prominently featured, the integration is straightforward enough that you could spin one up pretty quickly using the guide above! The Angular + Sanity combo works great for content-driven SPAs, blogs, and e-commerce sites. Since Sanity is just a content API, any JavaScript framework can consume it with minimal setup.