Preview everything, everywhere, all at once
To work confidently, content teams must preview their work within a realistic setting for any content experience. We’re launching easier previews for everyone and live previews that scale for enterprises.
Even Westvang
Co-founder and product person at Sanity
Molly Friederich
Director of Product Marketing at Sanity
Published
Building the user journeys that customers expect—and that drive business goals—requires weaving content through contexts and presentations. For example, ensuring a product description appears consistently across landing pages, check-out flows, email campaigns, and personalized banner ads. Developers use the Sanity Composable Content Cloud, a modern CMS, to connect the various systems specializing in content delivery for any given surface while saving their content teams unnecessary copy-paste chores.
However, as content teams transition from traditional monolith (or even less flexible headless) CMSes, they often settle for less than they’re used to when previewing experiences they create. The very strength of a composable content solution makes this difficult: content isn’t paired 1:1 with the presentation layer; rather, it’s “composed” from many sources to create experiences across presentations and contexts. Under the hood, this makes it challenging for technical teams to build comprehensive previews. Of course, losing visibility to end experiences leaves content teams uncertain about content accuracy, which they either tolerate or resolve with time-consuming workarounds.
, with extra focus on use cases with complex content: large document datasets, high content reuse, many channels, and so on—the scenarios where Sanity shines. We’ve shipped novel approaches and, along the way, have learned from the feedback you’ve provided about what works well and what’s lacking.
Today, guided by your insights, we’re announcing a range of upgrades to our preview tooling that:
- Make it simpler to set up previews for any framework or application, including mobile apps
- Expand our live preview support to all React apps, including and /Hydrogen
- Increase the scale of live previews to support Enterprise Plan customers with datasets of any size (we tried it with a 400k+ docs dataset, and it is still smooth as butter)
To learn more about how to set up previews with content from Sanity, you can explore the following:
- The new preview-kit for all React-based apps, including Hydrogen/Remix
- Our updated next-sanity toolkit for Next.js-based apps
- , which drastically simplifies querying for preview content
