Community Digest #17

Written by Knut Melvær

Last week we got our feet wet with streaming! It‘s not like we haven't done it before: We live-streamed a global meetup back in the summer of -19, and we participated with this Simen‘s talk about “The Value of Improvisation in Software” at BackendlessConf last December. But now we have a new channel on Twitch, and we kicked it off with Espen & Knut doing some live-coding. You can watch the reruns on YouTube.

It was super fun, and we are definitively returning with more streams going forward. And speaking of streams…

Upcoming events

Middlesbroughfe Front End meetup on Twitch

On Thursday, April 30th at 6.30pm (GMT+1), Knut will be joining the folks at Middlesbroughfe Front End via Twitch to talk about Portable Text. Although the recording will be available after, we hope that you have the time to join us and hang in the chat room!

Online Meetup: Sanity User Group – San Francisco

Magnus, Even, and Espen will be hosting a Zoom meetup on Thursday 30th, 7–8.30pm (PST). Lucho will be joining to talk about the new Paint(!) plugin that he has made for Sanity, and Espen will also be sharing something cool from his big drawer of ideas.

(If you don't have twitter, you can also send Magnus an email to ask for the link)

Community Highlights

Leaflet plugin

When Espen is not working on existing new features for Sanity Studio from our roadmap, he sometimes take the time to put out other cool things. This week he published a new plugin for people who are into maps and geolocation:

I've made an input component plugin, which uses Leaflet.js for geopoints in Sanity. By default it uses OpenStreetMaps, so it doesn't require an API key like the Google Maps plugin. You can also configure it to use Mapbox (as in the screenshot) or other tile layers. I'll be creating more geo-related stuff built on this soon!