Using Sanity Portable Text to Decouple Rich Text from Presentation
Learn how Sanity Portable Text stores rich text as JSON, enabling platform‑agnostic querying and rendering with GROQ and React.
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Learn how Sanity Portable Text stores rich text as JSON, enabling platform‑agnostic querying and rendering with GROQ and React.
Learn how to define a Portable Text field in Sanity, see a schema and JSON example, render it with a React serializer, and avoid common pitfalls.
Learn how to retrieve a Sanity post and its author in one request using GROQ’s arrow operator, with a worked example, performance tips, and limitations.
Replace the default block renderer in Sanity Studio with a custom React component to improve the editing experience without altering the stored Portable Text JSON.
Learn how to write efficient GROQ queries, hook them into real‑time listeners, and paginate data in Sanity.io. A concrete example shows live updates and pagination with practical checks and trade‑offs.