Documentation

[schwamic]

There is a lot documentation on how to build the sanity cms (https://www.sanity.io/docs) but I coudn't find sufficient documentation on how to use the fetched data on the client side, which describes how to use sanity-io/block-content-to-react library with serializers e.g. types, marks, list, listItem to render custom react components.

Is there a hidden documentation I missed?

[jacdx]

+1 on this with attention to React Native and using custom serializers, etc. as well

[dardub]

I find the documentation on the github README confusing as well.

[lack-of-gravitas]

When will the documentation be updated to align with the samples provided in the Sanity starter projects? -- have been trying to make this work under the NextJS e-Commerce starter (sanity.js file) where PortableText along with empty serliazers object -- have put basic h1/h2 tag processing int here and it doesn't work....it doesn't even work when mushed together inside [slug].js in the root directory of the frontend.

This link is also useless https://www.sanity.io/guides/portable-text-internal-and-external-links#render-the-links-with-react-b14f77c2e796

[lack-of-gravitas]

Figured it out

here's my seralizer object in case anyone's looking for some tips to get started

`// Set up Portable Text serialization
export const PortableText = createPortableTextComponent({
...config,
// Serializers passed to @sanity/block-content-to-react
// (https://github.com/sanity-io/block-content-to-react)

// implement inline icon serializer from https://medium.com/@kimbjrkman/how-to-use-inline-images-in-rich-text-with-sanity-io-c42594baa509

serializers: {
types: {
// render video block
videoEmbed: (props) => {
// const { url } = props.node.url;

    if (!props.node.url) {
      console.log("video props ->", props);
      return null;
    }

    return (
      <>
        <div class="container px-5 py-24 mx-auto flex flex-wrap">
          <div class="flex flex-wrap w-full">
                <ReactPlayer url={props.node.url} controls />
          </div>
        </div>
      </>
    );
  },

  // render text blocks
  block: (props) => {
    const style = props.node.style || "normal";
    if (style == "h1") {
      return (
        <h1 class="sm:text-3xl text-2xl font-medium title-font mb-4 text-gray-900">
          {props.children}
        </h1>
      );
    }
    if (style == "h2") {
      return (
        <h2 class="text-2xl font-medium text-gray-900 title-font mb-2">
          {props.children}
        </h2>
      );
    }
    if (style == "h3") {
      return (
        <h3 class="title-font font-medium text-gray-900">
          {props.children}
        </h3>
      );
    }

    if (/^h\d/.test(style)) {
      const level = style.replace(/[^\d]/g, "");
      return React.createElement(`h${level}`, {}, props.children);
    }

    return style === "blockquote" ? (
      <blockquote>– {props.children}</blockquote>
    ) : (
      <p class="leading-relaxed">{props.children}</p>
    );
  },
  // render code block
  code: (props) => (
    <pre data-language={props.node.language}>
      <code>{props.node.code}</code>
    </pre>
  ),

  // render image
  mainImage: (props) => (
    <figure>
      <img
        src={urlFor(props.node.asset)
          .auto("format")
          .width(500)
          // .height(400)
          //.fit("crop")
          .quality(80)
          .url()}
        alt={props.node.alt}
      />
      <figcaption>{props.node.caption}</figcaption>
    </figure>
  ),
},
list: (props) =>
  // console.log("list", props) ||
  props.type === "bullet" ? (
    <ul>{props.children}</ul>
  ) : (
    <ol>{props.children}</ol>
  ),
listItem: (props) =>
  console.log("list", props) ||
  (props.type === "bullet" ? (
    <li>{props.children}</li>
  ) : (
    <li>{props.children}</li>
  )),
marks: {
  strong: (props) =>
    console.log("strong", props) || <strong>{props.children}</strong>,
  em: (props) => console.log("em", props) || <em>{props.children}</em>,
  code: (props) =>
    console.log("code", props) || <code>{props.children}</code>,
  externalLink: (props) => {
    return (
      <Link href={props.mark.url}>
        <a class="mr-5 hover:text-gray-900 cursor-pointer">
          {props.children}
        </a>
      </Link>
    );
  },
},

},
});`

[rexxars]

Closing this, as the new @portabletext/react library is the successor to this module.
Please see https://github.com/portabletext/react-portabletext