CoursesHandling schema changes confidently
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Sanity developer essentials

Handling schema changes confidently

9
Lessons

1: Introduction to Schema Change Management

2
Tasks

How to think about schema change management and preparing your project for this course's exercises.

2: Updating the schema to match imported content

8
Tasks

Check document validation status across a whole dataset. Update schema with missing fields for content that's found in the dataset's documents.

3: Changing a field name

2
Tasks

Rename fields by first deprecating existing ones and marking them read only

4: Adapting a front end without downtime

4
Tasks

Prepare a front end for down-time-less content migration by adapting a GROQ query with coalesce()

5: Writing a content migration

7
Tasks

Use Sanity CLI to create a new content migration. Adapt the migration script for your use case.

6: Running a content migration

6
Tasks

Use field validation to validate if the migration was successful. Back up the dataset for safe measure. Run the content migration and verify that it went well.

7: Tidy up the schema and front end code

3
Tasks

Tidy up the document form by hiding the old field. Update your front end to only query and access the new field name.

8: Making the content migration (more) idempotent

2
Tasks

Make it safe(r) to run the content migration multiple times using GROQ filters and idempotency keys.

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