Content management in Next.js with Sanity CMS

Next.js, a React framework, enhances React's capabilities with built-in features such as routing, TypeScript support, and hybrid static and server rendering, which can be further enhanced by integrating with a headless CMS like Sanity CMS for more flexible content management in Jamstack-powered applications. Sanity CMS, unlike traditional CMS platforms, decouples content authoring from the presentation layer, allowing content to be exposed as data over an API, which facilitates platform-agnostic data reusability, improved security, and easier content editing. The guide explains how to use Next.js and Sanity CMS to manage content by creating and running a Next.js app, setting up a Sanity Studio project, editing schemas, and fetching data from Sanity CMS in Next.js to dynamically populate a landing page. This integration leverages the benefits of the Jamstack architecture, such as improved build times and a better developer experience, by separating content and code, thus allowing developers to focus on code and content editors on content. The article also highlights additional resources and tools like LogRocket for monitoring and debugging Next.js applications, offering insights into user sessions and errors to modernize the debugging process.