README.md

SanityPress

An opinionated and minimally styled starter template with Tailwind CSS and pre-built schema and modules for rapid website development.

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• 🖋️ Published on Sanity.io
• ⚡ Perfect Lighthouse scores on desktop and 99/100 on mobile.
• 🚀 Checkout the demo site, documentation and blog.

Table of Contents

• Key Features
• Getting Started
• Staging
• Helpful Resources (The SanityPress Blog)
• External References

Key Features

• ✨ Modern Frontend Development with Next.js (App Router, RSC, Typescript) and Tailwind CSS.
• 📕 Pre-configured Sanity schema for rapid content structuring.
• 📘 Pre-built frontend components for rapid website development.
• ✏️ Visual editing right inside the Sanity Studio.
• 📜 Auto-generated Table of Contents component based on headings.
• ⌨️ Auto-generated sitemap.xml and blog rss.xml.

Getting Started

Directions are also found on the docs.

1. New repo

Clone, fork or use the template from the GitHub template.

2. Get a new Sanity project ID

From the Sanity.io Manage dashboard, create a new project from scratch (blank schema) with CLI.

3. Update environment variables

# /next/.env.local
NEXT_PUBLIC_SANITY_PROJECT_ID = ...
NEXT_PUBLIC_SANITY_TOKEN = ... # retrieve from https://sanity.io/manage
NEXT_PUBLIC_REVALIDATE = ... # number in seconds; leave empty for `revalidate: false`

# /sanity/.env.local
SANITY_STUDIO_PROJECT_ID = ...
SANITY_STUDIO_PREVIEW_URL = ... # your live or staging site URL

4. Populate the Studio with content

Open your new Sanity Studio and add (and publish):

1. a Site document with a title field.
2. a Page document with the slug index to use as the Home page.
3. [Optional] a Page document with the slug 404 to use as the Page not found page.

5. Set up deployments

Update the Root Directory (Vercel) / Project Directory (Netlify) with a value of next. This tells the deployment service to serve the next/ directory and not the root.

Optionally, install either of the following plugins to add a widget to your Studio Dashboard:

# Vercel — https://www.sanity.io/plugins/vercel-dashboard-widget
npm i sanity-plugin-dashboard-widget-vercel

# Netlify — https://www.sanity.io/plugins/sanity-plugin-dashboard-widget-netlify
npm i sanity-plugin-dashboard-widget-netlify

6. Customize the frontend

Feel free to adjust styles, add more schema and modules, and more.

Staging

Create a new git branch (call it anything—e.g. staging or preview) and set an environment variable specific to that branch in your deployment service (Vercel or Netlify):

# Environment variable for the staging branch (in Vercel, Netlify, etc.)
ENABLE_PREVIEW = true

Now you can use the preview deployment URL to share staged content (unpublished changes) with your team or clients.

External References

• The official Sanity toolkit for Next.js
• sanity-io/next-sanity README
• Visual Editing with Next.js App Router and Sanity Studio

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