Of course, you should be able to type your content quickly!

Written by Knut Melvær

TypeScript brings "type safety" to JavaScript and has gained popularity over the past ten years. We see the adoption, especially with teams shipping business-critical web experiences to production. TypeScript makes it easier to identify errors and enables a vast array of convenient tooling that makes work easier, faster, and less error-prone for developers.

For a content platform specializing in making content available as data for developers, providing excellent support for TypeScript makes total sense. That's why we haven't settled on recommending GraphQL Codegen (which is still a viable option!). We wanted to bring full TypeScript support for Sanity Content Lake data queried with GROQ, the most flexible query language for JSON documents.

We have launched the beta version of our official TypeScript for content support: Sanity TypeGen. Upgrading your Sanity CLI allows you to generate TypeScript types from your Sanity Studio schema and GROQ query results in your web application.

This will enable you to build with the great developer experience that TypeScript offers without compromising the flexibility of GROQ and expressive content models for Sanity Studio.

We are releasing our official TypeScript support in beta because we wish to learn more about how you want to use this and what edge cases to cover. That being said, we believe most projects using TypeScript will benefit from this tooling today.