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The Best CMS Built With React

Sanity is the React headless CMS developers reach for — and the Content Operating System teams scale with. Define your content models in code, customize the editing interface with your own React components, and automate the workflows that slow your team down.

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Built for React. Built for scale.

React from front to back

anity Studio is a React app. Your schema is code. Your custom UI components are React. And because Studio ships as a standalone React application, you can embed it wherever you need it — in your app, your dashboard, your existing tooling. One framework, the whole stack.

Fully customizable editor

Start with a production-ready editor and extend it with official plugins or your own React components. Build editing interfaces that match how your team actually works — not what the CMS allows.

Powerful APIs

Filter, sort, and transform your data server-side with GROQ — Sanity's purpose-built query language. No over-fetching, no resolvers to maintain. The same structured content that powers your React app can feed AI agents and automation workflows.

AI built into every layer

Content Agent automates translation, enrichment, and publishing workflows. Agent Actions trigger AI on content changes. Functions handle event-driven automation across your stack. And the MCP server gives AI assistants and agents direct, governed access to your structured content. It's not bolted on — it's built in.

Build content apps your team will actually use

The App SDK lets you build custom content tools, dashboards, and editorial interfaces directly on top of Content Lake — in React, naturally. Stop forcing your team to work around the CMS. Build the exact tool they need.

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Build a React CMS in minutes

Get your ideas live with Vercel or Netlify within minutes. Our popular templates give you a complete React backend and frontend using frameworks like Next.js and Gatsby.

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React developers love working with Sanity

Read what our community has been saying about Sanity and React.

It’s just SO easy. I made both the site and CMS in about half a day total. Modelled the ThemeUI and content schema in GraphQL SDL, wrote the custom bits for the editor in React, and barely had to do anything on the Gatsby side. I don’t know how the DX could be much better!?
Michael Edelman
Solutions Architect @ Apollo GraphQL
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I started using Sanity for a friend's startup project. As I am using react components. Loving it! It allows developers to define a simple schema for content that is easily deployed using command line interface.
Zahra Dargahi
Senior Frontend Developer @ IAG
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After playing around with different JAMstack combos, headless CMS, SSGs for React, etc... I think I've finally landed on my ultimate, seamless, buzzworded, undefeatable ultra stack: Sanity as a CMS, Create React App, React Snap (SSR) + Netlify (pre-rendering).
Kevin McAloon
Frontend Developer @ Compassion International
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The CMS is made with React and it’s open source so you can extend/tweak it unlike competitors like Contentful. Content modeling is flexible and powerful. It has a generous free tier and after that you pay only what extra you need.
Brent Robbins
Full Stack React Developer

AI Content Operations

AI workflows you can build today

Your AI is only as good as the content it operates on. These guides show how to build real AI workflows on structured content: working code, honest trade-offs, and a starter kit for each.

AI translations that follow your terminology

Translate structured content field-by-field with Agent Actions. Preserve references, slugs, and schema integrity with human review.

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An AI shopping assistant that actually checks inventory

AI shopping assistant that queries your catalog with real business constraints, not similarity scores. Validates inventory before recommending products.

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Automate your content audits with AI

Find stale pages, missing metadata, and terminology drift. Fix them in the same session. All changes staged as drafts.

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The benefits of using a React-based Headless CMS

Why you should consider Sanity for your project.

Version control your backend

Sanity is configured and customized entirely in code meaning you can version control your backend and store it in git just like your frontend. No more GUI

Real-time collaboration

Our dynamic React-based editing environment is fully real-time; every keystroke is stored and shared in an instant. It also tracks changes, retains a detailed history, and offers one-click restores.

Respond to editor needs

You have the freedom to structure Sanity Studio however you like. Use React patterns to group content types in meaningful ways, hide the stuff you don’t use every day, combine rich document list-views from any field, and brand the studio in your own image.

Reuse content across multiple channels

Sanity is the intelligent backend for your React app — and every other channel that needs your content. Structure it once in Content Lake and serve it to your frontend, your mobile app, your marketing stack, your AI agents, anywhere that can hit an API. No duplication, no drift.

Open source

The Sanity Studio ships as an open-source single page React app. Install plugins from npm or build your own. You can also integrate Sanity in your own applications.

Easily combine rich-text with data

Sanity treats your content as data, and data as content. There’s no HTML, just JSON from beginning to end. Add semantic metadata to any field, annotate any text or inline object, and access everything from an edge-cached global CDN.

Enhance content through third-party APIs

Connect Sanity to any API-based service like Slack, HubSpot, translation tools, and data pipelines. Send content back and forth to get more done and reduce management tasks.

Iterate faster

Sanity’s flexible modeling and UI customization capabilities let you iterate quickly and evolve as you go. So you can reduce your time to market and work with content from day one.

Serve content from a global CDN

Your content lives on a fully-managed data store hosted in the cloud and a global asset CDN. So you can focus on building great content and experiences instead of worrying about servers, space and bandwidth.

Sanity has helped us transform the way we deliver content. It’s easy to customize and extend to meet our growing business needs.
Adina Ong
Web Development Manager @ Cornerstone OnDemand

How does a React CMS work?

What you need to know about working with a React CMS.

React is the leading JavaScript library for building highly interactive online experiences. It popularized the now ubiquitous idea of using components to structure an app and provides a well-known API for managing state in your application.

Ultimately, this gives React the power to control what is rendered on the screen based on how state changes. This interactivity and composability make React the perfect choice for building a CMS.

In a React CMS, React acts as the bridge between the raw database servers and the user interface an editor sees. React can react to changes in the user interface or the database and then take a related action.

An illustration of a React CMS interacting with the Sanity Studio and Content Lake

Imagine you complete your next great blog post and hit publish. React is responsible for reacting to this publish event and then doing something like updating the document status to published. React will also then handle passing this changed document status onto the database itself.

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