Community Digest #10: Anti-siloing, onboarding, and some praise
Community highlights, smart content modeling, client onboarding tips, art sites, fitness projects, and a dev profile—all powered by Sanity.
Knut Melvær
Principal Developer Marketing Manager
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The dust has barly settled after the launch of Document Actions and
A selection of interesting things that you have shared since last week.
We're fans of content strategist Carrie Hane (co-author of Designing Connected Content) here at Sanity HQ! Recently, she published a post arguing that you shouldn't start web design projects with a site map. Yes! That's a great approach to working with
Ronald Aveling@ronaldavelingAmen to that. @carriehd have you worked with @sanity_io from a modelling first point of view? I've found it very empowering and it's very dev friendly. Can be a great way to get content/dev silos working collaboratively early on.
Ideally, you build the Sanity Studio together with your clients, and using the process to let them work with real content, and get to a
External validation of the thing you're making feels nice, so we thought we might unapologetically share some tweets from this week with y'all. We're still blown away by these.
Adam Soffer@AdamSofferDove into sanity.io this weekend and am totally sold. In love with the DX, first-class graphql support, and beautiful open-sourced editor. Gonna use it for a new livepeer site. Cool seeing y'all using it at @MuxHQ as well!
Andrew Zeller@andrewjzellerD45/#100DaysOfCode Got up to speed on @gatsbyjs and setup a starter Gatsby frontend with a @sanity_io headless CMS. Super impressed with Gatsby's speed + Sanity's Studio SPA with real-time updates. Stoked to start building with these tools!
Martin Jacobsen@mmenneskeBig fan of @sanity_io. It’s the first CMS I’ve ever been enthusiastic about.
Ben Mildren@mildrenbenSetting up a quick schema in @sanity_io is the first time I've felt a headless CMS has gotten it right. Everything just works, it's intuitive and within 2 hours I'd read the Getting started docs and got a CMS up and running that I wanted with references and other cool stuff.
selbekk@selbekkMy wife 😍 had her baby shower today, so I spent the time porting blog posts and writing @sanity_io plugins. My fingers are literally hurting from all the typing, copying and pasting 😅
Have you launched something with Sanity.io? Or made a plugin? Remember to tell us about it! Either in a tweet or the #i-made-this channel over at Sanity.io Land.
How to build a website without anything like a normal budget, project plan, process or resources? Reduce the developmet to its absolute minimum by utilizing the amazing array of available tools and services.
Let's say they nailed it. Only spending something like 25 hours to do so. And they share the recipe as well!
Kartoteket 3x5@3x5KartoteketHow to build a website without a budget, plan, process or resources? Utilize the amazing array of tools and services available: kartoteket.as/notes/about-th… Hat tip and thanks to @tailwindcss, @sanity_io, @nuxt_js and @nystudio107
Jay Bowles posted the new site for Hua Explore in #i-made-this. We see an emerging number of art and museum sites powered by Sanity, like the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Nobel Peace Center, and Astrup Fearnley.
Speaking of art collection sites, Alejandro V. Rojas shared the new website of Kunsthall Trondheim, migrated from Wordpress into a Sanity + Vue + Express stack. Looking at the Studio, you'll see an excellent implementation of structured content, and Alejandro tells us that the editors “have been pretty pleased with a more flexible system.”
Andreas Straub shared this website for fitness groups. He tells us:
We have made the first release of the new website for the german fitness group. They have 15 studios. And this is the main landing page. The entire content is managed by Sanity Studio!
It’s a Gatsby Site hosted on Zeit Now. In this project we have also created an own componentPictureAssetthat can convert theSanityImageAssetto the new<picture>tag likegastby-image. It supports also the crop and hotspot information from Sanity. In the studio itself, it was exciting to use the colors of the course categories in preview components.
If you join our developer community you'll be able to get the code for the PictureAsset component. Andreas also shared screenshots from the studio, showing the color coded categories:
These developer profiles start to become the highlight of our week. We almost wish weeks were shorter so that we could do more of these. This week we got to talk to Holly, full-stack developer from Canada.
– Who are you and what do you do?
Holly Gronau, I am a Full Stack Developer from Toronto who loves video games, manga, and anime. Recently I have been playing Project Diva Mega 39s on switch and reading Skull-face Bookseller Honda san. I have a Basset hound named Olive and a Cat named Oni.
– Tell us what you're working on at the moment
Right now, at work, I am primarily working on a Sanity/
– What is your go-to stack these days?
No defined stack for me at work. I am coding everything from in house tools using jQuery to working on our Sanity Gatsby Project, and even doing some Wordpress work right now. On a personal level,
– If you had to pick only one, what is your favourite Sanity feature?
For me, the best thing about Sanity is the ease of use. Sometimes it feels like magic. Utilizing the API is great, and it's really easy to add webhooks too.
– Do you have a recommendation that developers should check out this week?
I have been reading a lot about SERP (Search Engine Result Page) and JSON-LD this week and found this guide from Brafton to be a great resource.