CMS & site builders
Sanity
Sanity is a headless content platform with a fully customisable editing studio and real-time collaboration. Its strengths and when I use it.
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Sanity is a headless content platform. Its editing interface, the Studio, is configured in code, so it can be shaped exactly around a project’s content and workflows.
Strengths: what it’s good at
- Custom studio: fields, validation, previews and editing views tailored to the content, not the other way around.
- Real-time collaboration: several editors in the same document, with history and comments.
- Structured content: rich text stored as data, which makes reuse across channels easy.
- Queries: a flexible query language (GROQ) that fetches exactly the content a page needs.
Limits: what to consider
The flexibility needs development time: a well-made Sanity setup is designed, not just installed. For simple sites with few content types, a lighter tool can be enough.
Use: when I choose it
For projects with complex or highly structured content, for editorial teams that work together on content, and when the editing experience should fit the team precisely. I pair it with Astro, Next.js or SvelteKit.
