Basic queries with GROQ

In this section, we are going to perform project-related GROQ queries. GROQ syntax can be used to interact with Sanity's API. Additionally, many of Sanity's integrations will be able to obtain information using this syntax.

Selecting all events

The first simple query we are going to run will select all events stored in the dataset.

By default, GROQ will set the order of the results to the id field. The id used in Sanity is the _id key in the resulting array:

*[_type == "event"]

This query will return all event content in a JSON-formatted array as shown:

 "result":[
  0:{
    "_createdAt":"2020-04-15T22:17:50Z"
    "_id":"6ddd2730-9aca-46dd-a7fd-850ab306f7fb"
    "_rev":"JmIGD46Mad7O6ByZXl1tpF"
    "_type":"event"
    "_updatedAt...