Sanity CMS

What is Sanity? A short introduction

What you need to know to get started with Sanity, the Composable Content Cloud

Sanity is a modern headless CMS (Content Management System). Sanity uses structured content to endlessly re-use content across any channel and a composable approach to help businesses connect to any third-party technology, data source, and front end framework.

With Sanity you can manage your text, images, and other media with APIs. You can also use the open-source single page application Sanity Studio to quickly set up an editing environment that you can customize. With Sanity you have access to a bunch of APIs, libraries, and tooling that helps you leverage the benefits of having all your content available as a single source of truth. This article will quickly walk you through some central concepts, giving you a head start.

• Sanity has a real-time datastore for structured content, and supporting APIs for assets, user management, and more.
• Sanity Studio is a user interface for managing content. It's an open-source React Single Page Application that you can customize and host wherever you want.
• There are also SDKs, libraries, and tools that let you query your content and integrate it with websites, services, and other applications; wherever you need content.

Sanity Studio

Sanity Studio is the place where you edit and manage your content. Sanity Studio is an open-source CMS that connects to Sanity’s datastore. It’s a single page application written in React and published on npm. All its source code is published on GitHub. You can set up content types and their fields by setting up your schemas in plain JavaScript which Sanity Studio uses to build the editing environment. Once you have done your changes locally, you can build and deploy the Studio on any web host, for example by running sanity deploy in the command-line tool which will deploy the Sanity Studio to our servers.