Sanity

What Is Sanity?

Sanity is a composable content platform providing real-time collaboration, structured content, and a fully customizable editing environment. Founded in 2017 in Oslo, Norway, Sanity serves teams at organizations like Nike, Figma, Netlify, and Cloudflare who need flexible content infrastructure.

Structured Content

Sanity stores content as structured data in a real-time document store. Every piece of content is a JSON document with a defined schema, enabling content to be queried, transformed, and delivered to any channel or device. This approach ensures content is portable and future-proof.

GROQ (Graph-Relational Object Queries) is Sanity's query language designed specifically for querying JSON documents. It is more concise than GraphQL for many content queries while providing powerful filtering, projection, and joining capabilities.

Sanity Studio

Sanity Studio is the open-source, React-based editing environment that can be fully customized. Developers configure schemas, create custom input components, build workflows, and design the editorial experience specific to their project requirements.

Real-Time Collaboration enables multiple editors to work on the same document simultaneously with live presence indicators and change tracking. Content history provides complete revision history with the ability to restore any previous version.

Content Lake

The Content Lake is Sanity's hosted backend that stores, indexes, and serves content through APIs. It handles asset management, CDN distribution, and real-time updates through webhooks and listeners.

Why Choose Sanity

Teams needing maximum editorial customization with real-time collaboration choose Sanity. The structured content approach and GROQ query language provide flexibility that template-based CMS platforms cannot match.