Virtual Tour Sanity + Sveltekit app
Create your own virtual tour using Sanity and Sveltekit using photo-sphere-viewer.js
A minimal SvelteKit Virtual Tour site with Sanity Studio
This starter uses SvelteKit 2 for the frontend and Sanity to handle its content.
Demo Page
Featuring
- How to fetch content as data from the Sanity Content Lake
- A Sanity Studio to create and edit content
- A virtual tour using Photo Sphere Viewer Virtual Tour official Plugin
Note
This starter features an
/appand a/studiofolder. The/appfolder contains the frontend code, and the/studiofolder contains the Sanity Studio code.This is not a monorepo setup. We put them both in one repository for the sake of simplicity. You might want to have separate repositories for each of the folders, to make it easier to deploy the app and the studio separately.
Prerequisities
- Node.js (v14.18 or later)
- Sanity CLI (optional)
Getting started
The following commands are meant to be run in both the /app and /studio folders.
npm installto install dependenciesnpx -y sanity@latest init --env, this will:
- ask you to select or create a Sanity project and dataset, use the same Sanity project and dataset in both folders.
- output a
.envfile with appropriate variables - (or use
sanity init --envif you have the CLI installed)
- Prefix your environment variables in the SvelteKit
/appfolder withPUBLIC_, they should bePUBLIC_SANITY_DATASETandPUBLIC_SANITY_PROJECT_ID. npm run devto start the development server
Your SvelteKit app should now be running on http://localhost:5173/ and Studio on http://localhost:3333/.
Feel free to move each of the folders to their own location and check them into version control.
Add content
- Visit the Studio and create and publish a new
VirtualTourPageBlocksandVirtualTourItemdocument - Visit the App and refresh the page to see your content rendered on the page
The schema for the VirtualTourPageBlocks and VirtualTourItem document are defined in the /studio/schemas folder. You can add more documents and schemas to the Studio to suit your needs.
Additional Configurations to the Virtual Tour
The Virtual Tour is controlled by the file app/src/lib/Virtual.svelte which uses the Manual mode using textureX/textureY coordinate system. This can be changed to yaw/pitch or GPS mode using the guide on the Official Plugin Website
The nodes are configured in Client Mode. The Virtual Tour by itself in the new Viewer({ ... }) can be configured with more options using Standard Configurations and Advanced Configuration Options. This will be helpful in customizing the viewer's page.
Removing TypeScript
If you do not wish to use TypeScript, we've included a remove-typescript.mjs file in the root of this repository.
To run this file, you must:
- Run
npm installin the repository root to install dependencies - Run
node remove-typescript.mjsto strip all types from both the/appand/studiofolders
If you intend to use TypeScript or have stripped TypeScript, you can safely delete all files in the repository root that isn't /studio or /app.
Deployments
The /app and /studio folders are meant to be deployed separately.
Feel free to deploy the App to whichever hosting provider you prefer.
You can deploy the Sanity Studio by running sanity deploy in the /studio repository, provided you have the @sanity/cli installed globally.