Sanity

I've been on a meal plan since last winter. Lost 25 lbs, which is great. But I'm the one who cooks, and managing a strict plan for a whole family is hard. So I built an app. PDFs from my nutritional coach go in, structured recipes come out. Scaling for my wife and kids, calculated weights, search powered by Algolia. One thing was missing: pictures. My kids would scroll through and just see a list of text. Not exactly inspiring when you're trying to pick dinner. Then I saw that Sanity shipped image generation in the Agent API. It reads your schema and uses your actual content to drive the prompt. "Coconut and oat pancakes with blueberries" gets a photo of that dish, not a generic breakfast stock image. I ran it on 50 recipes over a weekend. The kids actually want to pick dinner now. Wrote up the full process on the Sanity blog, including the complete TypeScript script and a couple of gotchas that tripped me up (arrays and the draft/publish flow). Here's the full write-up: https://lnkd.in/gUduGdbC

For the longest time, CMSes have stored rich text as HTML or Markdown. It works for rendering a webpage. It falls apart when you need that same content in a mobile app, a PDF, a search index, or an AI pipeline. You end up parsing markup instead of working with data. Not fun! Portable Text is an open specification for block content as structured JSON. It's also an editor for authoring that content. Two projects, one ecosystem. The spec: → Block content stored as an array of typed JSON objects. Text, images, code blocks, or any custom type you define → Annotations and inline objects carry structured data, not markup → Queryable. Filter by block type, extract all links, transform for any output → Render in any language. Serializer packages for React, Vue, Svelte, Astro, HTML, Markdown, plus community libraries in C#, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Flutter, and Hugo The editor: → Schema-driven. Define your content model, the editor enforces it → Headless. No built-in UI. Full control over toolbar, rendering, and interaction → Behavior API for custom keyboard shortcuts, paste handling, and input rules → Nine official plugins. Testing infrastructure with Gherkin specs and Vitest Portable Text has been in production since 2017. It powers Sanity Studio and Canvas and has been adopted by projects like Hugo (built into the binary). 50+ packages across eight languages. We just shipped a major docs overhaul. Per-framework rendering guides, custom blocks walkthrough, conversion to/from HTML/Markdown, editor behavior recipes, and an ecosystem catalog covering every package and plugin we could find. We're currently working on improving support for editing tables and more complex block types. You can build them today with custom blocks, but we want to make it cleaner. https://lnkd.in/g5JBzuC7

Prototyping with realistic data usually means spending hours mocking up structures before you even start building the UI. It slows down your momentum. On April 14, 2026, Knut Melvær and Evelina Wahlström are showing a much faster approach in our latest Vercel community session. Instead of manually wiring up a temporary backend, they will walk you through adding the Sanity MCP server directly to v0 by Vercel. You will learn how to generate a schema on the fly, populate it with real content, and query everything straight from your application while you design. https://lnkd.in/ejpRCd-q

"Right now in tech, there's a lot going on. It can feel easy to get lost in it." That's exactly why we started Pioneers. Bringing together a group of practitioners sharing how they're actually building content operations at scale. Thank you again to everyone who showed up in San Francisco, shared openly, and took the time to tell us what you thought. It shapes what comes next. And what comes next is somewhere in...Europe 👀 That's all we'll say for now. Follow us on Luma to be the first to know when registration opens. (video featuring: J'mari Wyatt, Meaza Abate, Bryce Wellington, Colin Craft)

Sanity is available as a connector in Lovable. Building something content-heavy? A marketing site, landing pages, editorial workflows? Add the Sanity connector and your Lovable agent creates schemas, content, LD-JSON for structured data, hundreds of pages. All from prompts, without leaving Lovable. When you're ready to hand off the project, deploy a Sanity Studio so your client (or content team) can manage everything themselves. No code required on their end. Already on Sanity? Lovable reads your existing schema and builds the frontend around it. Add it now: https://lnkd.in/gmfa_NYs

Most teams trying to adopt AI hit the same wall: You can't automate content that was never structured to support it. Workflows break. Vendor integrations become impossible to own. Writers end up responsible for schema markup they were never hired to produce. Braze started with the foundation. On Tuesday, April 14, Matthew Chamberlain (Sr. Technical Product Manager) walks through what they built: a translation pipeline that cut shipping time by 98%, AEO metadata that generates automatically, and agents running on live structured content. If you're building toward AI content operations and want to see what the foundation actually looks like in production, this is the session. Register 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/e7UwWkps