Community Digest #33: Status dashboard, color-themed portfolio, and image for Gatsby

Written by Knut Melvær

This week’s Community Digest features the newest projects and Studio features from the community ecosystem: a build status dashboard for projects on Vercel, an alternative Sanity image implementation for Gatsby, and a slick portfolio site with a neat Studio setup.

Dashboard widget for Vercel

Robin Pyon, the creator of the Media plugin, is back with another useful addition for Sanity Studio. A widget for the Dashboard to monitor your projects on Vercel that:

• displays a list of recent builds along with deployment aliases, branch/commit messages, build-age, and creator
• refreshes periodically (every 20 seconds) when the window gains focus and immediately after a manual build is triggered
• optionally displays a button for manual builds

Portfolio for Nik Sharma

We love the clean design of the portfolio that PBJ shared with us in the #i-made-this channel. Built with Gatsby, it includes color theming as well as Instagram and TikTok embeds in the rich text editor.

Sanity images for Gatsby

Corey Ward has built a lot of websites with Gatsby. He took it upon himself to make a new plugin for using Sanity’s asset pipeline in Gatsby projects. If the built-in support for gatsby-image isn't to your liking, this is definitely worth checking out.

In Corey's own words:

It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here! It’s the well-considered marriage between Sanity’s image assets and Gatsby that you’ve all been waiting for!

• Outputs a single <img> tag: no messing with nested DOM structures
• Supports low-quality image previews out of the box, without build-time penalties
• Generates a srcSet automatically based on the width you specify in your component code (meaning you can change it on the fly!)
• Applies Sanity hotspot data as the object-position in case you need it
• Computes cropped dimensions and drops srcSet entries that are larger than the source dimensions when appropriate (follows Sanity’s image-url parameters)
• Configures image quality, resizing behavior, file format, and more with Sanity’s Image API

Corey also shares a secret trick: You can use this for non-Gatsby projects as well using Webpack’s DefinePlugin configuration.

Join us in the community

Come join us in the Slack community; we'd love to meet you in the #introductions channel.

Want to be in this digest? Got a project to share? Head on over to the #i-made-this channel. If you need help along the way, be sure to check out our other channels (#help, #gatsby, etc).