Your Next.js & Sanity CMS Toolkit
Build and deploy type-safe websites with corresponding Sanity data schema in minutes rather than days or weeks. ZILKIT's open-source tools simplify the creation of forms, navigation menus, schemas, and content blocks while giving developers complete control over design and functionality.
Your Shortcut to Modern Website Deployment
Beta Version Target Launch: Q2 2026
Modern tools and frameworks, such as Sanity CMS, Tailwind CSS, and Next.js, have revolutionized frontend development and content management. They help build user experiences that render quickly across a wide range of devices and perspectives while simplifying development and management.
Even with the many available frameworks, bootstrapping a new project or website requires extensive planning and adds to the development workload. Launching a new website requires individual strategies for matching content schema to frontend components, storing and serving images, managing forms and response data, tracking metadata and site paths, and much more.
The team at Zilfire is developing ZILKIT to help bridge the gap between tools and frameworks and support rapid website development with Sanity CMS, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS. ZILKIT is not a framework but rather a web developer’s toolkit.
ZILKIT Tools and Features
CMS Integration
Seamlessly connect type-safe CMS schema to frontend components. All Core Theme components include plug-and-play data schema and types for deployment in Sanity CMS and Next.js.
Form Builder
The Sanity Form plugin provides a CMS interface for quickly building and editing custom forms directly from your CMS. The Form Builder package convers the Sanity form data into a React form component.
Image Support
Deliver Sanity CMS images to your website and create responsive source sets to boost performance and SEO.
Site Metadata
Manage site metadata and internal paths for search optimization, extensibility, and simplicity. Quickly build an optimized sitemap for your website.
Navigation Menu
Build navigation menus including both internal and external links in your Sanity CMS and instantly create navigation for your site.
Core Theme
Quickly deploy a templated website using the Core Theme's pre-defined schema and component blocks. Expand on the Core Theme for your own extensible UI.
Icon Support
Include Icon references in your CMS and deliver corresponding icons to your website while maximizing website performance.
AI Integration
Our tools are designed and optimized for Artificial Intelligence. Setup guides are provided to guide AI agents as they assist in creating rich online experiences with flexible CMS schemas.
ZILCORE FAQ
ZILCORE is designed to help web developers quickly deploy high performance websites using Next.js and Sanity CMS.
No. Core Theme and ZILKIT are being actively developed and are not stable. The APIs, components, and date interfaces will change. Our goal is to launch an official beta version with comprehensive docs in Q2 of 2026.
ZILCORE will include a Next-Sanity-Image component to simplify the process of launching Sanity-hosted images on a Next.js site. Next-Sanity-Image includes a sizes array option that automatically generates responsive image source set for the selected image.
Core Theme is a comprehensive React component library and type system for building Next.js applications with Sanity CMS integration. It provides pre-built blocks, reusable UI components, a type-safe styling system, and Sanity schema definitions
ZILKIT is designed to simplify the development process for websites using Next.js and Sanity CMS. Developers could use Core Theme "out of the box" and roll out a new website and customized CMS in little time. More advanced usages would include using Core Theme as a starter for a customized theme or incorporating one or more of the utility packages (i.e. Form Builder or Metadata) as part of an independent project.
Yes. This website was built using Core Theme and packages being developed for ZILKIT. The code for this website is included as Theme Demo in the ZILKIT repository. There is also a Quick Start guide in the Core Theme package.
No. ZILKIT is developed exclusively and independently by Zilfire, LLC. Next.js is a trademark of Vercel. Sanity is a trademark of Sanity.io. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.