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The Best Directory Structure to Use for Next.js and Sanity Projects

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Last updated: Jun 14, 2021
For Next & Sanity projects, do folks usually go with the following structure (as Sanity's examples seem to use):
/studio/ folder within a Next.js project
or is there any disadvantage to having something like:
frontend -> nextjs files
studio -> sanity magic ?
Jun 8, 2021, 4:37 PM
we do the second, works fine (each is a yarn workspace though)
Jun 8, 2021, 4:54 PM
Not overly familiar with yarn workspaces / seeing mentions of lerna - but I do think option 2 is the cleaner one. Tryna figure out whether its better to host Studio on vercel alongside frontend, or follow stick with sanitys default deploy location
Jun 8, 2021, 4:58 PM
I prefer everything to be together in one repo, but I typically deploy my studios to a
.sanity.studio
URL (via
sanity deploy
) to keep things easy, and avoid changing base URLs for the studio.
Jun 8, 2021, 5:17 PM
I do the second.
Jun 8, 2021, 5:28 PM
oh one thing about two distinct directories, some services like Netlify can treat each like it’s own site for deploy purposes and it makes this very easy to juggle
Jun 8, 2021, 5:37 PM
Appreciate the input guys! 😎
Jun 8, 2021, 5:58 PM
I currently have 2 separate projects in the same repo, one for studio and one for web. That was the old recommended approach back when I started using Sanity. But I’m curious about this new approach to host the studio as a separate app with Next rewrites.
I tried copying what was set up in the template repo but couldn’t get it working.
Jun 14, 2021, 2:40 AM
I’ll give it another try when my current projects calm down a bit. I kept getting errors when trying to access the studio. The classic
Invalid token <
Jun 14, 2021, 6:24 AM
I think that’s pretty much the setup I had as well. Though I use npm (other than in the studio since sanity pretty much forces yarn on you). That shouldn’t be it though, right?
Jun 14, 2021, 6:26 AM

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