Build IT Better: Architecture ft. Guillermo Rauch & Kapehe

[Music] hey everyone welcome to build it better i'm your host jesse tomshak a senior engineer with this dot today we're going to be building out a new marketing site and we've got a lot of moving pieces uh we've got headless cms uh through kapeh with sanity hello and we've got uh guillermo uh from

brazil and next.js how are you doing today it's doing great thank you fantastic so the build it better the idea of the show is we want to get experts together on the show and talk about some of the real gritty details um you know oftentimes when we have shows or blogs that they stay in a single lane in a single topic which is great to consume but most of us spend our day in multiple lanes crossing traffic even oncoming traffic right there's there's a lot coming at us at one point so there's a lot of moving

parts so for this build it better we're going to take the the idea of sort of a team meeting a sort of roundtable discussion we have a a new marketing site that has static content and maybe some forms um and it has some basic requirements that we can go into uh at the top and then we'll sort of break it down piece by piece um and then i'll let you guys have a floor and you can sort of tell me where you want to go or how we should build it or what we should start with and how these sort of things fit together so some of the requirements

from our collective bosses things that have come across our desk is we need a everyone needs to contribute to this marketing site everyone needs to be able to add content uh moderate content but only the boss can publish they need to be able to see the content in its beautiful production pristine environment first before we hit publish so we you know is that a staging environment a

preview preferably it's not my dev lab top you know at their whim um we've all done those presentations and i think they're really difficult to do when you can't like can we just email them a link or is there a permanent way that they can just sort of review it at their you know the the head honcho they work early they work late the rest of us you know um are sleeping sometimes so um let's start with the content so we we've chosen sanity as our as our back end cms um cap can you give us like a rundown of

sanity for those of us who haven't used it before some of its features and highlights and and sort of how we're going to structure sort of marketing content for the group yeah so aloha everyone uh yeah so coming from sanity there is so it's a platform for structured content and the really fun thing about sanity is the sanity studio and it's an it's a ui for your backend so a ui for all of your content and so if somebody that's not developing

wants to check out the content and they want to make sure everything looks good like the boss wants to make sure to review it before it goes live that's where they would be directed to the studio and in the studio it would have all the content title for a blog post or if it's an e-commerce pricing images and then the way images are handled insanity um i can get more into that later but everything kind of would live there and so the team can work there it can be

reviewed there and then there's like a a backlog of information we call it review changes where if you wanted to roll back to something else you can revert back and get rid of some changes that were made and go back to an earlier version but yeah that's sanity in a nutshell so we've got this uh studio uh it's got rich content i've been in the studio before it's really great um our photo and media