The present future of Sanity development
With its all-code configuration, thanks to AI-assisted development you can rapidly build Sanity-powered applications faster than low-code or no-code tools, which require hundreds of clicks in a browser to complete.
However without guidance AI tools will not write excellent code. Among other problems, this can lead to a Sanity Studio configured only with the defaults and will not provide the best possible experience for your content creators.
While most AI tools understand the APIs Sanity makes available, they will not follow our opinionated best practices. Nor have they—like human developers—formed their own. We have! They're published in guides and courses on Sanity Learn and when followed lead to great implementations.
In this course, you'll be onboarded to simple AI tools to level-up your ambition to build content-driven web applications.
This course covers how to:
- Write prompts that get desired results
- Understand what makes a great "prompt"
- Setup the AI-powered code editor, Cursor
- Apply best-practice skills to guide the responses to your prompts
- Setup the Sanity MCP server to connect AI to your content
- Rapidly build a new web application front-end
People who have never written code before have successfully completed this course!
These lessons are less about being technically demanding and more about introducing how to most efficiently develop by using AI tools.
You will benefit by having some amount of understanding of web application development and some appreciation for Sanity, the Content Operating System.
In short: Sanity offers a hosted backend—the Content Lake—and an all-code administration dashboard called Sanity Studio. Along with many more features.
If you have any other questions, ask your favorite AI tool.
Whether you’re a seasoned programmer, a rookie developer, or a complete novice—you may have formed some opinion on AI tools. I’m a 10+ year web developer and recently reformed AI cynic who has seen the light that our futures involve AI tooling, and there’s no going back.
If you’re new to programming, welcome! There’s never been a better time to dip your toe in the water. AI tools will do all the work writing things you haven’t learned yet. You’ll get started faster than ever before and get to focus purely on the outcomes that you want—less so on the code.
On the other hand, if you have programming experience, I hope that this course will show you how to work faster, better and with more ambition with AI-tooling.
Beyond the material presented in this course, I recommend reading the following valuable, hype-free content: