Sanity Review

Sanity gives you a structured-content backend with a fully customizable editing UI (the "Studio"). You define your schemas in TypeScript, the Studio adapts, and you query the data through GROQ or GraphQL.

Unlike most headless CMSes, the Studio isn't a sealed product — it's a React app you fork and extend. That matters more than I thought when I started.

Pros

• Schemas-as-code with type generation — no schema drift between content and frontend.
• GROQ is genuinely fun to write once you get the joins.
• Studio extensibility — desk structure, custom fields, custom actions, custom dashboards.
• Real-time mutations and Live Content API let you build collaborative editor flows.
• Generous free tier (3 users, 10k docs, 100GB bandwidth).

Cons

• GROQ has a learning curve — first few hours feel weird if you come from SQL or REST.
• Above the free tier, per-user pricing adds up fast for small teams with many editors.
• The Studio is fast but heavy — cold start on slow networks is noticeable.

Sanity drives content for VibeToolStack itself — every tool review, stack guide, and blog post is modeled as a typed document.

What sold me long-term: when I needed a custom 'Approve & Notify' button for comment moderation, I built it in 30 minutes and shipped it into the Studio. No CMS I've used before would have allowed that without a vendor ticket.

• Content layer for marketing sites, blogs, documentation, and small apps.
• Multi-channel content (web + mobile + email) with a single source of truth.
• Editorial workflows where editors need a real UI but devs need real data.
• Anywhere you want schema-driven content with a programmatic API.