Extending the Sanity Eleventy Blog Starter
Learn about GROQ, the Vision plugin, templating in Eleventy and how to add a few key features which are missing from the starter.
Content tagged with“Sanity”
Building a dynamic navigation component with Gatsby and Sanity
How to query data from a Sanity schema and use it to build a navigation component on a Gatsby powered website.
Building a navigation schema with Sanity
How to create a modular navigation builder. Modular, because you’ll be able to use it to create any number of navigations to use in your website or app.
Real-time updates with Sanity watch mode
Watch mode allows you to see realtime content updates without having to manually re-run the build process.
Query data from Sanity using GraphQL
Learn how to query structured content in Sanity with GraphQl and display the content in a Gatsby website
Set up a Gatsby project with Sanity
How to configure Gatsby to play nice with Sanity. Including configuring the gatsby-source-sanity plugin and some cool extra development features that ship with Sanity.
Deploy a GraphQL API for a Sanity project
If you want to consume your Sanity dataset from a front-end the you will need to set up an API. You can do this using Sanity’s custom query language GROQ or GraphQL. These notes focus on the latter.
Content schema in Sanity
When modelling your data try and think about your content not as ‘pages’ but as content ‘types’ and establish what fields each of those content types will need.
Starting a new Sanity project
Sanity is a headless CMS that allows you to structure your content by building custom schemas and deliver it as a flexible API, which you can then query using a front-end of your choice.