Sanity Studio v4: A major version bump for a minor reason - Blog post
The sanity npm package now requires Node.js 20. That's it. Your Studio code works exactly as before. Here's what you need to know about this update.
Knut Melvær
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Knut's headline: Knut is a principal developer marketing manager at Sanity.io
Knut's email: knut@sanity.io
Knut's website: www.knutmelvaer.no
Knut's location: Oslo, Norway
Joined: May 2017
Knut's job title: Principal Developer Marketing Manager
Latest contributions
Sanity Studio v4: A major version bump for a minor reason
First Published Timestamp Function - Recipe
Featured contribution
Official(made by Sanity team)
Automatically track when content was first published with a timestamp that sets once and never overwrites, providing reliable publication history for analytics and editorial workflows.
Knut Melvær
Auto-Tag Function - Recipe
Featured contribution
Official(made by Sanity team)
AI-powered automatic tagging for Sanity blog posts that analyzes content to generate 3 relevant tags, maintaining consistency by reusing existing tags from your content library.
Introducing Sanity MCP Server: Connect your content to AI tools - Blog post
The Sanity MCP server enables AI agents to interact with your content, empowering you with powerful tools for document management, GROQ queries, and more.
The Live Content API is now Generally Available - Blog post
The Live Content API is now production-ready for all Sanity users. This enables real-time content delivery at scale with minimal implementation overhead.
Knut Melvær
Give it in plain text: Making your content AI-Ready - Blog post
Optimizing for humans AND machines: How we made Sanity Learn bilingual with /llms.txt. Beyond data models, structured content now powers agent experiences.
Knut Melvær
A block content editor that loves you back - Blog post
The Portable Text Editor is a powerful, customizable editor for authoring rich text and block content. It can now be used in any project.
AVIF Arrives, Sanity’s Promise Fulfilled - Blog post
We now support AVIF for superior compression without compromising visual quality, resulting in smaller file sizes and better performance.
Sanity joins the Open Source Pledge - Blog post
We are joining the Open Source Pledge, committing to pay $2,000 per year per full-time developer directly to open source maintainers and foundations.
Your content is now Live by default - Blog post
Caching headaches cured forever. Deliver real-time updates, at scale, with fresh content, for everyone. Available now!
Of course, you should be able to type your content quickly! - Blog post
Sanity TypeGen generates TypeScript types for GROQ queries. Combine the benefits of type-safe content with the most flexible way to query JSON.
Knut Melvær
Easing into the App Router with the Sanity Toolkit for Next.js - Blog post
Achieve next-level web speed with our enhanced Next.js toolkit - tailored to developers and designed for optimal user experiences.
Seamless video management with Mux’s best-in-class plugin for Sanity Studio - Blog post
Enjoy improved editorial experience, efficient video management, and better playback options with the new upgrade to the Mux plugin for Sanity.
Knut Melvær
The official Sanity integration for Astro - Tool
Featured contribution
Official(made by Sanity team)
Integrate content from Sanity on Astro websites
What composable means (to us) - Blog post
Let‘s dive into what “composable” means for content management and how it represents a better way to build experiences on the web and elsewhere.
Knut Melvær
Visual Editing with Next.js App Router and Sanity Studio - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
Setup "Live by Default" fetches and interactive live preview with Presentation in Sanity Studio
Cloud CMS Explained: 5 Benefits Of Making The Switch - Article
Cloud CMSes are seen as the modern alternative to legacy self-hosted CMSes like Wordpress, Drupal or Magento.
Knut Melvær
Clean Angular + Sanity app - Template
Official(made by Sanity team)
A minimal Angular SPA app with Sanity Studio.
Knut Melvær
Clean Nuxt + Sanity app - Template
Official(made by Sanity team)
A minimal Nuxt app with Sanity Studio.
The Composable Stack: 5 Frontend Frameworks To Consider - Article
Want to build with new technologies but are unsure where to start? This guide introduces 5 promising front end frameworks and how they integrate with Sanity.
Knut Melvær
Clean Astro + Sanity app - Template
Official(made by Sanity team)
A minimal Astro app with Sanity Studio.
5 Disadvantages Of Wordpress That Are Holding You Back - Blog post
Your content is too important to leave in a system designed to manage blogs over twenty years ago. Here are 5 major disadvantages of WordPress as a content solution in the composable era.
Knut Melvær
Build your blog with Astro and Sanity - Guide
A complete guide to setting up your blog using Astro and Sanity
Tutorial: Make a blog with Next.js, React, and Sanity - Blog post
Sometimes you just need a blog. So why not build it with something shiny like Sanity Headless CMS, React, and Next.js?
How to build an input component for Sanity Studio v3 - Guide
This guide teaches how to add a custom input component to a field for Sanity Studio v3
Knut Melvær
Sanity Studio v3: Simplified Yet Powerful Customization - Blog post
The next major version of Sanity Studio is now generally available. Get started quickly with the most customizable content workspace in the industry.
Knut Melvær
A New Native Authoring Experience and Starter for Next.js - Blog post
Get started in minutes with a built-in content solution for Next.js and Vercel, powered by Sanity Studio v3. Also: join us for the Sanity Product Event on December 8th!
Knut Melvær
Headless CMS Explained - Article
Learn about headless Content Management Systems: what they are, how they work, and how they differ from traditional CMSes like WordPress.
Knut Melvær
Make It Yours: Sanity Studio v3 Developer Preview - Blog post
Sanity Studio has gotten a major upgrade to the developer experience. It's faster and easier than ever to customize however you'd like.
Knut Melvær
Web developers: A headless CMS won’t solve your problems. Structured Content will. - Blog post
Join us at Structured Content 2022, May 24–25 to get inspired, get insights, and make new friends.
Knut Melvær
Harm reduction for developer relations teams - Blog post
We want to make sure that our devrel team is safe and is able to enjoy their work teaching and learning in public. Unfortunately, this doesn't come without risk, especially if you are non-male and non-white. Here are 7 ways we have started to approach harm reduction for developer relations at Sanity.
Knut Melvær
Get current post, previous post, and next post - Recipe
This can be used for blogs or articles where you want to possibly display next and previous article buttons
How Sanity helps you build delightful editorial experiences - Blog post
These new features help you harness the power of structured content so you can build the great experiences your editors deserve.
Recap: A Sanity Open House on Delightful Editorial Experiences - Blog post
Catch up on the talks and conversations from the Sanity Open House on Delightful Editorial Experiences.
Knut Melvær
Anchored Headings for Portable Text - Recipe
How to automatically generate linked headings with a custom serializer
Knut Melvær
Advantages of Structured Content and Simple Rich Text Editors - Blog post
Structured content breaks down content into reusable, meaningful pieces. Text formatting should be equally as intentional and purposefully.
Delightful Editorial Experiences. A Sanity Open House. - Blog post
Join our next Open House. December 8th, 2021. 09.00am – 12.30pm PST.
Knut Melvær
“A breakout year for Sanity”: Growing fast with top satisfaction among developers - Blog post
We’re proud to see our community’s rapid growth and honored as Netlify’s Jamstack survey shows Sanity with the highest satisfaction rate for a CMS
Knut Melvær
Become a JSON wrangler with the new GROQ introduction on egghead.io - Blog post
Want to take control over JSON data? Take the new GROQ introduction course on Egghead.io!
Knut Melvær
Migrate plain text field to Portable Text - Recipe
Migration script to convert plain text to block content across your content lake
Knut Melvær
GROQ-Powered Webhooks – Intro to Projections - Guide
A thorough intro to using GROQ-projections in a webhook contest
GROQ-Powered Webhooks – Intro to Filters - Guide
A thorough intro to using GROQ-filters in a webhook-context
Jamstack Conf: Feature launch and editor experience workshop - Blog post
We've got a lot planned for this year's Jamstack conf, we hope you join us next week!
Knut Melvær
Frequently asked questions - Recipe
Simple content type for a question and answer pattern
Knut Melvær
Launching Conditional Fields: Release Party Recap - Blog post
We celebrated the launch of conditional fields and learned about two community success stories.
Knut Melvær
Rich quotations in Portable Text - Recipe
Schemas for adding richer quotes within Portable Text
Knut Melvær
Announcing the Sanity Content Lake integration for Vercel - Blog post
Now available on the Vercel Marketplace
Knut Melvær
Visual Editing with Next.js Pages Router and Sanity Studio - Guide
Setup interactive live preview with Presentation in a Next.js pages router application
Word count and reading time estimation for GROQ and Portable Text - Recipe
Make a rough calculation of word count and reading time for your Portable Text fields
Knut Melvær
Level up your content search with the sanity-algolia toolkit - Blog post
The new sanity-algolia toolkit lets you efficiently index your content using serverless functions.
NextAuth Sanity - Tool
NextAuth Adapter and Provider for Sanity
Tailoring content for different audiences - Guide
How to deliver better content experiences across cultures, languages, and tastes.
Hierarchies, Graphs, and Navigation - Guide
Hierarchies are handy for organizing, but they can also fence you in. Learn how to build them, when to use them, and why you might want to treat navigation as a separate concern.
Breaks for Portable Text - Recipe
How to add different types of “breaks” for Portable Text that can be translated to horizontal rules, “read more”, sections, chapters, and so on.
Knut Melvær
How to list and group image asset documents - Recipe
Add lists of image assets based on information in the asset document using the Structure Builder API
Knut Melvær
Migration script for document types - Recipe
This migration scripts lets you migrate documents to a new type.
Knut Melvær
Initial value template with current user - Recipe
Use data for the current logged in user as initial values in a new document
Knut Melvær
Delete documents by filter - Recipe
Studio v2
Migration script for deleting documents based on a GROQ filter
Knut Melvær
How to create an effective editor experience - Guide
Learn how to shape Sanity Studio to improve editor flows and content quality.
Podcast - Recipe
Schemas for running a podcast backend on Sanity.io
Knut Melvær
Deciding on fields and relationships - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to work through tricky content questions and build structures that will stand the test of time.
Heading, text, and illustration - Recipe
Schema for a text with a heading and a illustration with a caption.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest: 2020 highlights - Blog post
Looking back at last year, here's some great projects and contributions from the Sanity.io developer community.
Nested navigation structure - Recipe
Studio v2
Recursive schema for nested navigations
Knut Melvær
Sanity UI: A composable, accessible, beautiful React component library - Blog post
Build and style custom tools and components for Sanity Studio and beyond.
Early access: Redesigned team and project management dashboards - Blog post
Try out the new projects and teams dashboard — completely redesigned.
Community Digest #33: Status dashboard, color-themed portfolio, and image for Gatsby - Blog post
Inspect your builds on Vercel without leaving the Studio, get some inspiration from Nik Sharma’s new portfolio, and there's a new way to work with images from Sanity in Gatsby projects.
Knut Melvær
Query your data inside VS Code - Blog post
Get syntax highlighting and query execution for GROQ with the Sanity.io extension for VS Code.
Knut Melvær
Opening up Sanity.io: Share with others. Find libraries. Learn new skills. - Blog post
People, tools, schemas, and more from the Sanity community in one convenient place.
Live Preview with Next.js - Blog post
Collaborate live with live preview for Sanity and Next.js.
Knut Melvær
Sanity.io on the Google Cloud Platform podcast - Blog post
Listen to the episode of the GCP podcast where Simen and Knut tell about the origin of Sanity.io and they see it something more than a headless CMS.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest: Summer Edition Part 2 - Blog post
Visualize your own custom mask, replace GraphQL with GROQ in Gatsby, work with custom audio inputs, magazines, and more.
Creating a Commenting Engine with Sanity and Next.js by Vercel - Blog post
In this live stream, we look at creating a commenting engine using Sanity, Vercel, and Next.js
Community Digest: Summer Edition Part 1 - Blog post
In this chunky summer edition of the community digest, we present the first part of all the projects that have been launched with Sanity and shared with us in the #i-made-this channel in our community slack.
Knut Melvær
Why content modeling early unlocks value - Blog post
Content modeling early in the lifecycle of a project is really valuable. Learn how to apply it to projects young and old, tricks for modeling with legacy software, and advice for considering CMS migrations.
How to use structured content for page building - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
Learn how to create a page builder from structured content that can withstand the test of time and redesigns.
New stream: How to store user-generated content - Blog post
Learn how to use serverless functions to update content in your Sanity.io dataset!
Knut Melvær
How to Make Taxonomy Pages With Gatsby and Sanity.io - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
In this tutorial, we’ll cover how to make taxonomy pages with Gatsby with structured content from Sanity.io.
This is an external link at:css-tricks.com
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #20 - Blog post
Websites for Nick Offerman, Michiganian drone shows, Deno gists, and bespoke e-commerce built under 20 hours. We got it all in this week’s communiy digest!
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #19 - Blog post
This week, we bring GROQ to Gatsby, tip-of-the-week, a deep dive into blog design, a new game for Amazon Alexa, and other new projects launched with Sanity!
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #18 - Blog post
We‘re back again with a bunch of highlights and new projects launched in the Sanity community. From stolen CSS to artful portfolios.
Knut Melvær
Say hi to our new asset utilities library! - Blog post
The new library of asset utilities makes it even more convenient to build with images and files from Sanity.io
How to duplicate an existing document and set the _id manually with the CLI - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
In this video, you'll learn how to use the Sanity CLI to duplicate an existing document and set its _id manually from a text editor.
This is an external link at:www.youtube.com
Knut Melvær
How to create a custom asset source plugin for Sanity Studio - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a custom asset source plugin that uses the webcam to insert a photo in the Sanity Studio’s image field.
This is an external link at:www.youtube.com
Knut Melvær
Getting started with content modelling and structured content - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
In this chat, Ronald and Knut will give you some cues and pointers to how to think and approach structured content
This is an external link at:www.youtube.com
Community Digest #17 - Blog post
We have found our way on to Twitch! Upcoming online events. Maps, serverless SEO, TypeScript, and a bunch of new apps and sites launched with Sanity.io.
Knut Melvær
How we manage community support with Sanity - Blog post
We are making the code for our community management studio and Slack integration public. It‘s also a story about how structured content can be used to power organizational processes, and not just websites.
Using Sanity for image art direction - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
Five cool image tricks that you can achieve with Sanity
This is an external link at:css-tricks.com
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #16 - Blog post
Here's the highlights and new projects launched with Sanity this week: New intros, clients, and content modelling resources.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #15 - Blog post
We're back from Easter holiday with new content and projects from the Sanity community: Live-streams, guides, nifty widgets, creative sites, and a wine-lottery app.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #14 - Blog post
Get a head start on your next Shopify and Gatsby e-commerce project, as well as a craving for plums, new Vue and TypeScript integrations, and new themes for Sanity Studio.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #13 - Blog post
We're back with yet another community digest. This week, there's a lot of visually creative sites, an introduction to content modelling, and a nifty new plugin for complex GROQ queries.
Knut Melvær
Recreating the CodePen Gutenberg Embed Block for Sanity.io - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
Learn how to create a custom CodePen block with a preview for Sanity Studio, inspired by Chris Coyier’s implementation for Wordpress’ Gutenberg editor.
This is an external link at:css-tricks.com
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #12: Let us have a dugnad - Blog post
In this week’s community digest, we dedicate some space for projects related to the COVID-19 pandemic, some working from home advice, and of course, new projects launched with Sanity. And the technologist profile featuring Kelly Quantrill.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #11: E-commerce, women in tech, and hackathons - Blog post
Most of us have spent the last weeks adjusting to the COVID-19 outbreak in some way or another. With everything that is happening, it still good to have something that's “business as usual.” So here's a new community digest, with community highlights, new launches, and a developer profile.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #10: Anti-siloing, onboarding, and some praise - Blog post
Don't start with the site map, start with structured content. How to onboard clients to their new content management. A bunch of new site launchese. We share some praise. And a new developer profile; this week, Holly!
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #9: Big week, dashboards, magic light switches, and swag in the wild - Blog post
New sites, interesting tidbits, and a new developer profile from this week in the Sanity community.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #8: Browser tabs, Figma integrations, and a developer profile - Blog post
Learn how Jamie found Sanity, what keeps us up at night, and some of the highlights from this week in the community.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #7: Great advice, Theme-UI, grids, and awesome SEO - Blog post
We have a chunky digest for you this week!
Knut Melvær
How Cloudflare built their showcase site for Workers on Sanity.io and Gatsby… and Workers - Blog post
Developer advocate at Cloudflare, Kristian Freeman, joins Sanity.io’s Knut Melvær for a conversation on how “Built with Workers” was built.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #6: Voice assistants, studio customization, and tabs for everyone - Blog post
This week we had a meetup, and people have shared their rebranded studios, custom input component, e-commerce starters, and new websites.
Knut Melvær
Community Digest #5: Iconic duos, Shopify starter, and Built with Cloudflare Workers - Blog post
We have a lot of Gatsby-related projects this week, including a Shopify-starter and Cloudflare’s new Workers-site.
Knut Melvær
Community digest: Custom icons, Portable Text, Gatsby, and Tailwind (#4) - Blog post
In this first edition of the weekly community digest, we'll hear about custom icons, the power of Portable Text, and a few nice starters.
Knut Melvær
Building the official Las Vegas Alexa skill (Sanity User Group SF Meetup) - Blog post
We're hosting a meetup in the Bay area on February 5th. Learn how the official Las Vegas Alexa skill is powered by structured content. And how to customize author experiences inside Sanity Studio.
Knut Melvær
Better ContentOps with Google Analytics right inside the Sanity Studio - Blog post
Get the numbers where you're working. Up your ContentOps game with Google Analytics right inside the Sanity Studio.
Try Condé Nast UK’s asset management tool for Sanity Studio - Blog post
Love Magazine have more than 30.000 photos and needed better asset management. Try out the asset manager Robin Pyon built for them with multiple views, sorting and batch deletion.
Knut Melvær
Preview Anything: Introducing Views and Split Panes - Blog post
With custom views and split panes, you can now create your own document previews inside the Sanity Studio.
How To Make A Speech Synthesis Editor - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
Learn how to make a What You Get Is What You Hear (WYGIWYH) editor for speech synthesis using Sanity.io’s editor for Portable Text.
This is an external link at:www.smashingmagazine.com
Knut Melvær
Deploying Sanity Studio with Vercel - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
This guide will walk you through how to deploy Sanity Studio with Vercel in three simple steps.
This is an external link at:vercel.com
Knut Melvær
Getting started with initial values for new documents - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
Studio v2
How to get started with initial values
Knut Melvær
New Guide: Learn how to style Sanity Studio - Blog post
Learn how to style Sanity Studio with your own colors, fonts, and logo with our new guide.
Knut Melvær
Founders of Netlify, Gatsby.js, and Sanity.io: We need to talk about content - Blog post
The videos from our "We need to talk about content" August meetup at Heavybit is up. Watch the founders of Netlify, Gatsby, and Sanity.io discuss the future of content on the web.
Knut Melvær
Introducing the Sanity source plugin for Gridsome - Blog post
With our new source plugin for the Vue.js based static site generator Gridsome, you can now build fast by default websites powered by structured content. The plugin gives you fast and frugal builds. With watchMode you get low latency real-time content previews while you develop, without having to save or publish.
Sanity.io User Group London: E-commerce and rapid prototyping - Blog post
We had the first London-based Sanity.io User Group meetup at Moving Brands’ quarters. MB’s Toby Milner-Gullard talk about how they used Sanity from prototype to production, and Rupert Dunk showed us how to do a e-commerce platform from scratch using Sanity and some few dedicated services.
Knut Melvær
We’re open sourcing GROQ: A query language for JSON documents - Blog post
Today we’re open sourcing the specification for Sanity’s query language GROQ.
Knut Melvær
Videos from our online meetup are up! - Blog post
We had a blast hanging out with everyone who came to Sanity.io’s online meetup. Now the videos are up for those of you that didn't get to be there.
Knut Melvær
How to add custom YouTube blocks to Portable Text - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to add a YouTube embed in the Studio, and render it on front ends
Knut Melvær
Join our Online Summer Meetup on June 11th! - Blog post
Join us for our Online Summer Meetup, June 11th. State of Sanity; How prima.co was built; Gridsome source plugin; What we have been working on.
Knut Melvær
Internal and external links with Portable Text - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
How make internal and external links with Portable Text and render them in frontends
Knut Melvær
We had ourselves a bug week - Blog post
No new features. No detailed plan. Just bug fixes for a week.
Knut Melvær
Introduction to Portable Text - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
Studio v2
Learn how Portable Text works
Knut Melvær
Get started with the Next.js landing page website - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to get started with the Next.js and Sanity.io powered landing page website
Knut Melvær
Get started with the Nuxt.js event website - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to get started with the Nuxt.js and Sanity.io powered event website
Knut Melvær
Get started with the Gatsby blog - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
Get started with the Sanity and Gatsby blog starter project
Knut Melvær
Get started with the Gatsby portfolio - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
How to get started with the Sanity and Gatsby powered portfolio website
Knut Melvær
Document list widget - Tool
Official(made by Sanity team)
Display a list of documents in your dashboard
How to configure schemas - Guide
Official(made by Sanity team)
A video on how to customize the schemas in a Sanity Studio
Knut Melvær
Live coding with Gatsby.js and Sanity.io: How to make a portfolio website - Blog post
Our developer Espen joined Gatsby.js’ Jason Lengstorf on Twitch and taught him how to use Sanity.io as a content backend for Gatsby.js. Together they made a portfolio website.
Knut Melvær
JAMstack Oslo Meetup: The one about Gatsby.js - Blog post
We co-hosted and live-streamed the first JAMstack Oslo meetup. See the videos from the talks about Gatsby.js.
Knut Melvær
How to quickly set up a Gatsby.js JAMstack website with a headless CMS - Blog post
We built a Gatsby.js example that ships with a Sanity.io editing environment. Here’s how to set it up with your own content, modify the look-and-feel with realt-time previews, and deploy on Netlify or Zeit’s Now.
Knut Melvær
Blazing fast development with Gatsby and Sanity.io - Blog post
Releasing the Gatsby Source plugin and example project with real-time content preview in watch mode
Knut Melvær
Sanity.io on the devmode.fm podcast - Blog post
Our developer advocate Knut Melvær appeared on the devmode.fm podcast and talked Sanity.io with Andrew Welch, Patrick Harrington, and Lauren Dorman
Knut Melvær
How we blog - Blog post
In this post we give a quick summary of how, where, and why we blog at Sanity.io.
Knut Melvær
Mux input - Tool
Featured contribution
Upload videos to Mux directly from the studio.
Simen Svale Skogsrud explaining Headless CMS on The Cherryleaf Podcast - Blog post
Listen to the interview The Cherryleaf Podcast did with co-founder and CTO Simen Svale Skogsrud on what a Headless CMS is. 🎙
Knut Melvær
First class responsive video support with the new Mux plugin - Blog post
When building Sanity, we emphasized building a flexible image pipeline to transform and re-crop your images. We have no ambition of doing the same for video.
Knut Melvær
Indexing in Algolia using serverless functions (and observables!) - Blog post
With Sanity’s powerful export API it's easy to make a small serverless function in order to index all your content in Algolia for the times you want to harness its search capabilities. It's also a nice way to learn about observables in JavaScript.
Knut Melvær
Getting started with Sanity as a headless CMS - Blog post
Sanity is the perfect companion for when you want to get started with the JAMstack, or just need API for your project. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to get started with using Sanity — from configuring the React editor with JavaScript, to querying the API and migrating the content datasets.
Knut Melvær
Headless CMS explained in 1 minute - Blog post
Learn about headless Content Management Systems: what they are, how they work, and how they differ from traditional CMSes like WordPress. We explore the uses of headless content, and how to apply it to websites, apps, and more.
Knut Melvær
Webamp - Tool
Studio v2
Run a Winamp port in your studio!
Knut Melvær
Creating Custom Content Blocks: Wordpress Gutenberg vs. Sanity - Blog post
The new Gutenberg editor for Wordpress comes with the ability to create custom content blocks using React. Let’s compare how easy it is to make those in Sanity.
Knut Melvær
sanity-plugin-timelinejs - Tool
Studio v2
This plugin install schemas for hosting content for Timeline.js.
Knut Melvær
Podcast content schema - Tool
Studio v2
Podcast plugin for Sanity that creates schemas for podcasts and episodes with necessary iTunes data. Make as many podcasts with as many episodes as you want.
Knut Melvær
3 simple things in GROQ to supercharge your frontends - Blog post
GROQ is Sanity’s graph-oriented query language. It lets you do rapid development with structured content. As soon as you create a document on the backend, you can instantly query it. Here's 3 simple things you can do in GROQ to get you started.
Knut Melvær
5 neat tricks you can make the Sanity CLI do - Blog post
The Sanity CLI can do many things, but here are five of them you should check out.
Knut Melvær
Why portable text is awesome and you totally want it in your CMS - Blog post
Portable text is a better way to handle content in your CMS. Here's why.
Knut Melvær
Design with real content: How to connect Sanity with Sketch using InVision’s Craft plugin - Blog post
How to use structured content and Sanity’s API to prototype design in Sketch.
Knut Melvær
How to conditionally build an javascript object with features in - Blog post
The spread syntax lets you conveniently build an object with optional fields. Especially useful when you move user generated data via APIs to serverless functions.
Knut Melvær
Read about Sanity.io’s image pipeline in CSS-tricks - Blog post
We wrote a post on CSS-tricks, with live code examples on Codepen, on how to use this metadata that’s applied to images in Sanity. We're pretty pleased with it!
Knut Melvær
How to structure your code repository in a Sanity.io project - Blog post
You've set up your Sanity project, published content, and now you're ready to build a frontend or service. But how should you structure your code?
Knut Melvær
Tutorial: Hosting your Next.js frontend on Netlify in 5 minutes - Blog post
Do you want to host your Sanity backed Next.js frontend on Netlify? No problem! Just follow these few steps to get going.
Knut Melvær
Exporting your structured content as CSV using JQ in the command line - Blog post
The shell tool jq is awesome for dealing with JSON-data. It can also transform it into handy .csv-files, ready for all your spreadsheet wrangling needs. This tutorial use Sanity.io as a backend.
Knut Melvær
Have Sanity Notify your team on Slack using Webtask.io - Blog post
Connect Sanity's webhooks to a Slack channel with Webtask.io
Knut Melvær
How Konsus use Sanity as a headless CMS to drive inbound engagement - Blog post
How Konsus uses Sanity to drive their websites, build landing pages, blogs and FAQs.
Knut Melvær
About Knut
Knut has written code for the web since the early 2000s. Knut has a background in the digital humanities and has worked in the intersection between user experience design and technology. He has also been a columnist, speaker, and university lecturer.
Knut joined Sanity in 2018 as their Head of Developer Relations, and has since grown the developer community, made educational content, and much more.
Knut cares a lot about making technology and programming understandable and accessible to anyone, not just developers.