Sanity.io — Compute-a-field

Sanity has gained significant momentum in 2020 as a next-gen CMS architecture. One of its main advantages is how seamlessly it works with react components, allowing developers to build custom flows to ease the tedious nature of data entry for CMS managers and provide tactical field validation.

While my experience has been mostly smooth with Sanity, one challenge keeps coming up — I want to autofill a given field based on other attributes of a given document. For example, CMS managers are tasked to make some updates, and then I have to go back and update a field that is based on…