Trouble getting started with Sanity, unable to add new items to content type

Hi! I am trying to get started with Sanity for the first time, and haven't been able to get the studio to work yet. I did a clean install with the cli and used the "blog" schema template. I ran sanity start right away and everything seemed to spin up correctly. I was able to go to the desk at localhost:3333 but when I click on a content type, it just says "loading items" indefinitely and I am unable to add new items. I tried a clean install and then I tried another clean install without the blog schema template -- same thing each time. Does anyone else have any advice on this? I'm about ready to move on to a different CMS, which is too bad because Sanity seems cool 😞

Hi User. Sorry to hear there’s been some trouble getting started! Were there any error messages worth noting—either in the bottom-right corner or in your Developer Tools?

Nope! Nothing in chrome developer console or terminal

Would you be comfortable trying something in the terminal?

Yep!

If you go to your studio directory and run

sanity documents create

, you should get something like this:

Set the

_type

to a document type that’s in your schema. Could be post, author, etc.

When you save the file, I’m curious to know if you get a “Created” response back with the

_id

.

Would that response come in the terminal window? Not seeing anything

Hang on, I had to close the text window. Got an id back

Yes, the response would normally come back in the terminal after having saved the file.

yep got an idea, had to close the file first

*id

Okay, that’s a good sign that you can interact via the CLI.
Could you try running

sanity logout && sanity login

, then

sanity start

again and see if that helps. I’m not confident it’ll solve the problem but at least we can tick it off.

aha!

That seems to have worked

Hey! Nice!

Thank you for helping out!

Strange though

Any time! Enjoy getting started and thanks for sticking it out. 🙂