September 2021 Summaries

Félix Péault, an Art Director and Digital Designer, embarked on a nearly year-long journey to create his portfolio site, Flayks, collaborating with friends to incorporate complex animations and a unique design style inspired by bold colors and psychedelic gradients. Despite the usual shorter timeline for portfolio sites, the project extended due to Péault's involvement in other work and the complexities involved in achieving the desired animations, particularly with WebGL canvases. The site utilizes Svelte and SvelteKit for seamless deployment and performance, alongside Sanity for its customizable headless CMS capabilities. Péault emphasized the importance of understanding front-end development as a designer to ensure designs are feasible and to facilitate better communication with developers, highlighting the value of collaboration between design and development in digital projects.

A virtual meetup celebrated the release of Sanity.io's new conditional fields feature, drawing over 100 participants globally who were eager to learn about this long-awaited enhancement. The event provided a platform for community members to share their experiences, including Karin Hendrikson's demonstration of consolidating 26 marketing sites using Gatsby.js and Sanity.io, and the co-founders of jot.works showcasing their note-taking app powered by Sanity and SvelteKit. The introduction of conditional fields addressed longstanding feature requests, enhancing the editor experience by allowing field visibility to be controlled based on other field values. The meetup not only highlighted these technical advancements but also fostered a sense of community and collaboration among participants.

August's Community Digest from Sanity highlights several notable projects and contributions from its community. Among the featured projects is a full podcast platform for The Face-off Spot Podcast, created by Matt Taylor, which leverages Sanity Studio to organize and present content by episodes, sponsors, and authors, allowing users to easily navigate and listen to episodes. Another highlight is a comprehensive guide by Nils Norman Haukås on adding localization to Sanity Studio using the sanity-plugin-intl-input, offering practical insights for developers and content creators. Simon Rogers shares an innovative use of Sanity Studio for Bright Notion, an independent music publisher, showcasing dynamic music visualization and text annotations that enhance user interaction. The digest also invites community members to share their own projects, guides, tools, plugins, and schemas on Sanity's Exchange and Slack Community, fostering collaboration and showcasing the diverse applications of Sanity's platform.