This course teaches you how to build real content systems with Sanity CMS and Next.js. You'll learn how to model content that scales, build intuitive editing experiences for content teams, and integrate it all into a frontend. By the end, you'll have the foundation to build content systems for marketing sites, editorial platforms, portfolios, and digital archives—and you'll know how to make them a pleasure for editors to use.

We'll cover foundational Sanity concepts, but the focus is on production-ready implementation: the patterns and decisions that matter when you're building for real clients and users. Whether you're new to Sanity or have used it before and want to sharpen your approach, this course will give you a clearer picture of how to build robust, fault-tolerant applications.

Together, we'll build a content site with Pages, Articles, and a tagging system. Each content type teaches specific concepts: Articles cover rich text and imagery, Pages cover block content, composable layouts and SEO/metadata, Tags cover references/relationships.

This course is suited for those with previous experience in web development. You should be comfortable with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and web app basics.

Feb 17th, Module 1: Data Modeling + Sanity Studio

• Sanity project setup and Studio overview
• Schema design: Pages, Articles, Tags
• Block content: building dynamic, composable pages
• Image handling: asset pipeline, hotspots, crops, metadata
• References and relationships: building a shared tagging system
• Portable text: configuring rich content for articles
• Customizing Studio structure and previews
• Deploying your Sanity Studio

By the end of this session, you'll have a deployed Sanity instance with your content models, ready to populate.

Feb 24th, Module 2: Next.js Integration + Deployment

• GROQ fundamentals: how Sanity's query language works
• Fetching content in Next.js
• Building index pages: listing and filtering content
• Dynamic routes using generateStaticParams
• Rendering block content and portable text
• Responsive images with next/image and loading placeholders
• Deploying to Vercel with webhook-triggered rebuilds

By the end of this session, you'll have a fully deployed website pulling live content from your Sanity Studio.

March 1st, 10AM-4PM, Work Session (Optional)

Four hours of open work time. Bring your project, work alongside other attendees, ask questions, and get unstuck. Feedback and guidance will be available throughout the session.

Module 3: Advanced Patterns (Online Materials)

Included with your course access—a self-paced module covering:

• Pagination strategies
• Integrating third-party data
• Securely previewing draft content
• Integrating external CDNs & cost optimization
• Scaling best practices

Course materials may be periodically updated.

Conor Davidson

Conor Davidson is a technologist and entrepreneur based in New York. He's led projects for clients including Brooklyn Museum, Stripe, Hinge, Nike, and The Light Phone. He has extensive experience building content platforms (with Sanity) for cultural institutions, startups, and tech companies. Conor has a background in industrial design and works across mediums—from software to physical object. He enjoys the end-to-end process of making things, from concept to execution.

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