We 💖 CLIs! That’s why we keep giving ours new powers. Learn about 5 cool things you can do in the terminal with your Sanity project. The last one is mindbending, we promise! 😇 At the , we live and breathe in the terminal. And honestly, we keep developing the Sanity CLI because we use it ourselves every day to interact with our structured content. I want to take this moment to share some of the cool things you can do with it. Sanity Head Quarters tool Install the CLI by running **npm install --global @sanity/cli** in your terminal and get started with a project by running **sanity init** . 1. Query your data sanity documents query "*[_type == 'post']{_id, title}" You can do a couple of things with the , but one of those we use the most is the one for . Running this in your project folder will give you your data printed out right in the terminal. If you add , you'll get some nice highlighting too. This is handy for testing queries and exploring your content, but if you think about it, it's also a way to use those UNIX superpowers on your content. For example, you can use it to . I use it so often that I have added to my . sanity documents command querying a dataset --pretty export your data to a csv file alias sdq="sanity documents query" shell configuration 2. Export a dataset in a neat package sanity dataset export <datasetName> The whole point of a structured content management system is that it should be easy to get your content out of it. Usually that’s by querying the API for the content you want, but sometimes, you want it all, at once, neatly packaged. This command exports all your documents in a -file and your assets to a dedicated folder. It downloads a gzipped file, which you also can import to a new dataset with . You can also, for example, unpack the file, run a find-and-replace-all operation on all your data, and import the file to a dataset again. .ndjson sanity dataset import dataset.ndjson Getting ALL THE DATA 3. Manage CORS settings sanity cors add http://localhost:8000 . It’s easy to forget it when you’re on a roll building your new frontend. Then it’s nice to have an easy way to add a new CORS origin right from the command line. You can and them out too. CORS is a thing delete list 4. Get an overview of your projects Since you can have as many as you desire, and starting a new ( ) is rather easy, it doesn't take long before you have a handful of projects in your account. Then it's nice to have an easy way to list out all the projects with some key information tied to your account. free developer plans project sanity init 5. Create and edit a document in your favorite editor sanity documents create --id myDocId --watch --replace This command is my favorite. It creates a new document, opens it in the EDITOR you’ve set in your terminal (mine is ), and lets you live edit that document while it's being synced to the datastore. If you put an existing document id in the spot, you'll get that document and be able to edit it. Run to learn more about what this command can do. export EDITOR='code -w' myDocId sanity documents create --help It’s truly headless when you can edit content live from your favorite editor. Get started with by running this command in your terminal: Sanity npm install -g @sanity/cli && sanity init Originally published at www.sanity.io .

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