Tips for accessing and previewing Sanity data in Gatsby

11 replies

Last updated: May 12, 2020

Is this an issue where Gatsby shows empty sanity children but the Sanity playground shows data?

May 12, 2020, 12:48 AM

If you want to access the sanity children you would need to query the

_raw

version of that field. So in your case,

_rawAmenities

and you’ll get the children.

May 12, 2020, 1:18 AM

Thank! you! Just got to that a couple minutes ago, it's working

May 12, 2020, 1:19 AM

Do you know any trick to fetch the data without the need to stop the Gatsby server?

May 12, 2020, 1:19 AM

On your gatsby-config. Add

watchMode: true

on your gatsby-sanity-source options. That should turn live preview!

May 12, 2020, 1:21 AM

Wow, thank you very much!

May 12, 2020, 1:21 AM

🙌

May 12, 2020, 1:21 AM

You can also show drafts by adding

overlayDrafts: true

May 12, 2020, 1:22 AM

It’s a really cool feature! It disciplined me to write code that doesn’t break the frontend if there is any missing data!

May 12, 2020, 1:23 AM

Nice, actually that's an excellent tip

write code that doesn't break the frontend if there is any missing data

May 12, 2020, 1:24 AM

Thank you

user N

May 12, 2020, 1:25 AM

You’re welcome! Happy to help1

May 12, 2020, 1:25 AM

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