Q: Should I move away from our current headless system?

The short answer: Probably yes. The longer answer: If your content management system works for you right now, then you wouldn't be on this page... That being said, we think there's a fundamental flaw in drag-and-drop schema builders (which is pretty much the entire market). Ultimately, at some point, they will fail; you cannot validate with any complexity: e.g I want to make it so you cannot use links from Wikipedia on our website. That being said, there's an ability to make incremental steps in the right direction, dependent on scale and complexity.

Question 1

Should I move away from our current headless system?

Accepted Answer

The short answer: Probably yes.

The longer answer: If your content management system works for you right now, then you wouldn't be on this page... That being said, we think there's a fundamental flaw in drag-and-drop schema builders (which is pretty much the entire market).

Ultimately, at some point, they will fail; you cannot validate with any complexity: e.g I want to make it so you cannot use links from Wikipedia on our website.

That being said, there's an ability to make incremental steps in the right direction, dependent on scale and complexity.

Question 2

What makes Sanity the right choice?

Accepted Answer

We've used a range of different headless content management systems, and guess what is the weak link in the chain... Yep, you've guessed it.

That is, until we started using Sanity. There's so much flexibility and extensibility that we've not come across a task we weren't able to handle.

Want to import your Shopify products? ✅
Want to validate a location is within the US? ✅
Want to integrate a form-builder? ✅
Want seamless internationalisation? ✅

I think you get the point, it suddenly takes away the "if it's possible" and strictly focus on "how can we achieve".

Question 3

I have a big team, does it still work?

Accepted Answer

One word: Multiplayer. If you've ever used Google Docs, you know the quantum shift away from saving files with one-final-version-v2-a-final.docx

Sanity does the same thing with content management. You can work with a team-member in real time, you can share a preview to a shareholder. Hell, you can even create an FAQ page, where your team mate, quickly rattles out in real-time 10 questions, while you work on the meta title. Pretty neat right?

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