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August 30, 2026

Building a Content Workflow with Sanity CMS

How we structured Sanity schemas, GROQ queries, and TypeScript types to build a CMS that the whole team can actually use.

Most CMS implementations I have seen fail for the same reason: the schema is designed around the developer's mental model, not the editor's. Fields named "body" and "content" tell an editor nothing about what goes where.

Sanity's schema language is unusually expressive. You can add descriptions, validation rules, and conditional fields — essentially embedding documentation into the studio itself. We lean heavily into this.

Our GROQ queries live in a single queries.ts file. Every query is typed with Sanity's TypeGen tool, which generates TypeScript interfaces directly from the query shape. No more manual interfaces that drift from reality.

The result is a setup where designers, developers, and content editors all move at full speed — each in their own lane, without stepping on each other.

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