sanity-plugin-media

Sanity Media

Alternative media management for Sanity.

Background

This plugin provides a dedicated media browser for managing images within Sanity.

Out of the box, it provides a link in the menu where you can view all dataset images from anywhere within the studio.

It can also be used as a custom asset source for image fields.

Features

• Adds a menu item / tool for easy access from anywhere in the studio
• Grid / table views
• Multiple selection (hold down the shift key) and deletion
• Displays the selected assets on the current field
• Custom filters to display unused assets and those referenced in the current document
• Basic filename / date sorting
• If using as a custom asset source: displays the current document title that you're inserting into
• View basic file metadata: original file name and size, dimensions and MIME type
• Integration with Sanity's snackbar notifications
• Single click to download high quality versions of your assets
• Virtualized displays (with react-window) for speedy browsing of large datasets

When sanity-plugin-media is accessed via a custom asset source, you'll have the option to insert assets as well as view the currently selected image for that field.

Install

In your Sanity project folder:

sanity install media

This will add the Media button to your studio menu. If this is akkkkkkkkkkkkkl you're after – that's all you need to do!

Enabling it as a global custom asset source

This plugin exposes part:sanity-plugin-media/asset-source as a part you can import when defining custom asset sources.

In sanity.json, add the following snippet the parts array:

{
  "implements": "part:@sanity/form-builder/input/image/asset-sources",
  "path": "./parts/assetSources.js"
}

./parts/assetSources.js:

import MediaAssetSource from 'part:sanity-plugin-media/asset-source'

export default [MediaAssetSource]

Now clicking 'select' on every image field will invoke sanity-plugin-media.

Read more about Sanity's custom asset sources.

Good to know

• Displaying assets referenced in the currrent can be slow on large datasets (with thousands of images). This may be improved in future with changes to the GROQ query engine.

• Batch deleting assets invokes multiple API requests - this is because Sanity's transactions are atomic. In other words, deleting 10 selected assets will use 10 API requests.

Roadmap

• Display total image count (Contingent on query engine rewrite)
• More keyboard shortcuts
• Delete confirmation dialog
• Image uploads
• Multiple insertion into documents
• More detailed metadata views
• Folder management (!)
• Fix typings across the board, consider using typesafe-actions
• Remember browser options with local storage

Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!