Sanity Studio v3: Simplified Yet Powerful Customization

Folks, we have a lot to tell you about.

Today, we are launching Sanity Studio v3 in general availability. The open-source, single-page application that teams can fully customize using a robust development framework. It's now easier than ever to run content-driven experiences at any scale, from your personal website to a hub of international brands serving millions of visitors.

This is our biggest release of Sanity Studio since it was launched out of beta in 2017. What we hear consistently from our community and customers is that they love Sanity because it can be tailored to their needs. We wanted to make that simpler and more powerful.

Most content management systems claim that you can get up and running quickly, but none let you gain speed down the road. Studio v3 uses known patterns from frontend development, enabling you to ship faster and work on what matters with less context switching. Part of the Sanity Composable Content Cloud, it’s the most mature open-source authoring tool that is built to scale without the added worry of managing databases and server environments for your team.

You can try out Studio v3 today by starting a new project or exploring our migration guides to upgrade an existing project. If you want a demo of Sanity Studio, you can try out this template or contact our sales team.

# To get started with Studio v3 in the command line: npm create sanity@latest

Studio v3 at a high level

The new version of Sanity Studio introduces a lot of improvements for content creators and developers.

For content creators:

• Improved developer experience means that it’s easier and quicker to get a Studio up and running, as well as customized and integrated where you need it to go
• New global search with filters supporting all fields across your dataset, especially powerful for projects with many documents
• Workspaces, allowing content creators to switch between content environments quickly
• The Studio can be embedded in your web project for easy and intuitive access

For developers:

• Updated APIs that follow common patterns that you are used to from modern web development
• Ships as a single npm dependency (sanity) with JavaScript-based configuration (sanity.config.js|ts)
• New faster developer tooling based on Vite, with the option of using any or no bundlers
• The Studio module also has full ECMAScript Modules (ESM) support and CommonJS fallback and can be run in all modern browsers without bundling and embedded in any web project
• Better abstractions for wrapping and composing Studio and Form Components, making it much simpler to customize the Studio
• New Studio v3 templates that let you get up and running with best practices
• New Plugins API with tooling (plugin-kit) that makes it easier to develop, maintain, and publish plugins for Sanity Exchange

Head over to the new docs if you want to try out Studio v3, or contact our sales team to schedule a demo.

Over a year's worth of work also mean that there’s a lot to unpack. Let’s dive deeper into the updates, starting with improvements for content creators and then for the developer experience.