Community Digest: Summer Edition Part 1

Written by Knut Melvær

It has been a while since our last community digest. We pushed pause on them when the Black Lives Matter protests started to leave room for more important voices. The protest and the need for justice and equity is far from over. So even if some things are going on “business as usual”, we should make sure that our support is ongoing.

We have a bunch of projects and cool things to show you in this community digest. There so many projects that have been launched since last time, that we had to make this a two-parter (this is part 1)!

We also have some new people on the team. Most of you who have been in our Slack community already know Peter, who we have hired full time as our Community Engineer. In addition, we have Bryan and Kapehe who are our new developer relations specialists.

Join our community to meet them, get help, and feedback on your Sanity powered project!

The new MIT Digital Humanities website

Mike Wagz and Self Aware Studio launched the new website for the Digital Humanities at MIT using Sanity and 11ty. Bryan actually got Mike on for a show and tell on Twitch earlier in July.

Portfolio for Adam Chipperfield

Adam launched his new developer portfolio with Nuxt.js and Sanity. It also features some great blog posts on Nuxt.js that you should totally check out if you’re into Vue and the Jamstack.

New blog for Ademusoyo

Nigerian born, Houston raised, and New York City living software engineer, designer, public speaker content creator Ademusoyo built and launched her new blog this summer. Congrats, and great work!

Some appreciation from Olivier

I just wanted to drop a big Thank You to the Sanity team in general to be so helpful in the Help channel. This is clearly something that will come up whenever someone ask me why they should choose Sanity over another headless cms. Cheers to you. It's not often you get personalized answers for your problem. I usually end up reading bunch of Stack Overflow pages. I struggled with few things but always got help. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

Thanks for the kind words Olivier! We really like this part of the work, and hope we manage to keep up with all the questions ♥️

New changelog for Linear.app

Jori Lallo is co-founder of the fantastic issue tracking app Linear and moved the changelog part of the site to Sanity this summer, He has this to say about it:

We moved Linear's changelog from MDX files to Sanity driven and the experience has been really nice, thanks to the team for creating such a powerful tool. While we're now at parity, this will enable us to do so much more going forward.

E-commerce for the cereal subscription service Offlimits

Kevin Green has been at it again and shipped another fantastic e-commerce site, this time for the cereal subscription service Offlimits. It’s a treat even if you're not planning to get cereal by mail. Kevin has this to say about the site:

super super excited to announce this one. I used sanity in the typical ecom/headless fashion, syncing products and recharge subscriptions into the platform. I additionally used sanity as a CRM for managing customers to create a reward platform. The reward points are added and calculated after an order is created via webhooks, from there users can login to the site where it fetches your stored point values to allow for an enhanced shopping experience. studio screenshots in the thread (built with my midway starter)

Showcase site for the colorist Jacob McKee

Jason shares the new website he made for Jacob McKee - who works with brands such as Apple, Joji, Reebok, and many more. The site sports some smooth animated transitions, and an interesting explore projects by color feature. Check it out!

Cinematographer Patricia Lope’s website

Jeroen Deglorie has made a new site for the Portuguese-Brazilian cinematographer Patricia Lope, showcasing her work. Jeroen gives us a bit of background for the project:

Hi, I was curious about Sanity with Gatsby and live preview with Gatsby Cloud and so on... So this is the result of my first sanity/gatsby project.

Great work!

New site for motion graphics studio Bullpen

Lucas Vocos shares this new site he made for Bullpen.tv - how has made motion graphics for Twitter, Spotify, Disney, and other brands you probably know. He writes:

Had fun with the schema for the projects' cover rollover on the main index page, as well as variable sizing for each "experiment" layout size

Website for SEO professional Ekom Enyong

Philly-based SEO professional and web developer Ekom Enyong decided to use the glorious combo of Next.js + Sanity + Vercel to learn React. With great results, we must say! Also, some handy SEO tips to found in the blog.

Validation snippets for Sanity Studio

Field validations is a whole thing. All the schema types for Sanity Studio comes with built-in validation methods that you can use. You can also write your own using JavaScript and even promises. Eric Howey wrote up a couple of snippets he wanted to have handy, including for ZIP codes and valid email addresses.