HISTORY OF DEV

November 14, 2017

Sanity launched

Sanity went live on November 14, 2017 — opening its APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service.-first headless CMSContent management system — software for building and publishing websites without hand-writing every page. and customizable ReactA JavaScript library for building UIs — component trees and declarative rendering for the web.-based Studio to the public.

What it was for

Sanity stores structured content in a real-time Content Lake queried via GROQ — developers define schemas in code and customize the editing UIUser interface — the parts of software people see and interact with. in ReactA JavaScript library for building UIs — component trees and declarative rendering for the web.. It competed with Contentful and Strapi as teams adopted JAMstack and decoupled frontends.

Companies

  • Meta

Why it's here

Sanity brought real-time structured content and a customizable open-source Studio.

Why it mattered

GROQ and Portable Text set patterns for developer-centric headless CMSContent management system — software for building and publishing websites without hand-writing every page. design.

What it solved

Headless CMSs offered APIs but locked teams into rigid, uncustomizable admin UIs.

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