Community Digest #13

Written by Knut Melvær

Most of us are still adjusting to the new situations that spring out of the global pandemic. But it's still out of the ordinary, and we shouldn't expect to stay as productive as we may have been before the crisis. Even this community digest ended up a couple of days late, but that's OK. And we're still amazed by all the cool things that people share in #i-made-this, and the creativity and positive energy we get to be a part of.

Community highlights

#content-modelling

Naturally, there have been a bunch of content modelling questions in our Slack‘s #help channel through the years, but this week it earned its bonafide channel. And rightly so, content modelling is heart and center of what Sanity is about: Being able to express your organization‘s practical content reality without sacrificing developer nor editor experience.

To mark the occasion, I invited user experience designer and content strategist Ronald Aveling to have a chat on how to get started with content modelling and structured content. It's a great place to start if you're new to this stuff, and probably interesting if you're familiar with it too.

Plugins

Minify GROQ

Espen “rexxars” Hovlandsdal‘s day job is developing and engineering at Sanity HQ, and he made this minifyer for people with complex GROQ-queries using the “tagged literal” pattern. It's pretty neat, and it plays well with the Sanity VS Code extension.

I made a function to minify GROQ-queries. It's pretty basic, but it can still significantly reduce the size of certain queries, which helps keep them within the 11KB limit (the Sanity client switches to POST-requests against the non-CDN API if queries are above 11KB).