The visual frontend & visual editor for Sanity – without a custom build

Sanity is a headless CMS with structured content in the Content Lake: schemas, datasets, Portable Text, assets, and localization are its strengths – queried via the GROQ API and the GraphQL API. Sanity Studio is the editing environment, but not a finished, production-ready frontend. That's exactly where Laioutr comes in: as a visual page builder and frontend layer that reads your Sanity content and delivers it in a fast website. Sanity stays your content backend, Laioutr delivers the frontend.

Sanity continues to manage content, schemas, datasets, permissions, roles, assets, and translations. You keep using Sanity Studio and your established processes unchanged – with all your plugins and webhooks.

For the frontend you have several options: an official Sanity starter, a community framework with a Sanity connection, a custom build (Next.js/Nuxt) – or a page builder like Laioutr. Each option has pros and cons.

No duplicated data, no sync conflicts. Laioutr reads your Sanity content via the GROQ API and the GraphQL API and renders it – including multilingual support and multiple datasets.

With Studio, schemas, and an end-to-end GROQ and GraphQL API, Sanity delivers the building blocks – but not a finished, production-ready frontend product. That leaves every Sanity project facing the frontend question. Four options are established in the market.

The official Sanity starters and templates (Next.js, Nuxt, and others) are an ideal starting point for learning and for proofs of concept. As a production frontend, you keep developing the design system, components, and page logic yourself. Makes sense for small sites or as an interim solution.

Open-source frontend frameworks with Sanity SDKs and community integrations. An active community, but no official production frontend product and no direct enterprise support net. Makes sense with the right frontend team for whom open source matters strategically.

Maximum control, highest effort. A six-to-twelve-month build phase and ongoing maintenance by an in-house frontend team that connects to the Sanity GROQ/GraphQL API itself. Makes sense when frontend engineering is your strategic core competency.

A visual page builder and frontend platform with 70+ components, EU hosting, and a connection to Sanity. Fastest time-to-launch, lowest learning curve, marketing and editorial build pages themselves. Makes sense when you want to go live fast, without a custom-build investment.

Laioutr is built for Sanity setups that need to change and scale fast. From the corporate website to multi-brand portfolios to campaign landing pages with a high editorial volume.

Sanity manages structured content for multiple brands and sites – via datasets and schemas. Laioutr turns it into standalone frontends – one component pool, many brand presences, each with its own design and its own domain.

Marketing builds landing pages visually from ready-made building blocks – without custom code and without a developer ticket. Content comes from Sanity, the layout takes shape in the page builder.

Sanity manages translations via the i18n concept, Laioutr delivers them consistently. Languages, layouts, and content controllable per site, compatible with the Sanity localization approach.

One Sanity, many channels. The structured content from the Content Lake is delivered consistently across web and further touchpoints – content, languages, and layouts controllable per channel.

Renew your existing Sanity frontend without touching schemas, datasets, or editorial processes. Migration in phases, with a clear rollback plan.

New Sanity project, fresh start. With Laioutr themes and the UI library, you go live in weeks instead of investing months in a custom build.