Sanity is a platform for creating and working with structured content. Your content is stored in the cloud and can be distributed anywhere, for example on a website or in an app.
Sanity as a Headless CMS
More specifically, Sanity is a Headless CMS. It is a content management system that is decoupled from the front-end. This means that the content is stored in a database and can be accessed by any front-end application.
Why use Sanity?
Sanity is a great choice for a Headless CMS because it is:
- Flexible - Sanity is a flexible platform that can be used for a wide variety of use cases. It can be used for a simple blog or a complex e-commerce website.
- Developer-friendly - Sanity is a developer-friendly platform that is easy to use and has a great developer experience. It has a powerful query language called GROQ that allows you to query your content in a flexible way.
- Scalable - Sanity is a scalable platform that can handle a large amount of content. It is also easy to scale your content by adding more content types and documents.
- Collaborative - Sanity is a collaborative platform that allows multiple users to work on the same content. It also has a great versioning system that allows you to revert to previous versions of your content.
- Low-Effort - Sanity takes care of the hard parts of building a custom CMS by handling deployment, version history, security, and more. This allows you to focus on building your application instead of building a CMS.
And more importantly, it has a generous free tier that lets anyone reap the benefits of a Headless CMS.