First attempt at a blog with Sanity.io
August 7, 2025
Summarizing my failed attempt at building a blog with Sanity & Astro
Written by: Astro Learner
The tutorial
Build your blog with Astro and Sanity, last updated January 28, 2025. 6 months old at the time of this attempt.
The step
Embedding Sanity Studio. Everything was going fine until I tried to open studio on the local develeopment server.
The error
Failed to fetch dynamically imported module: http://localhost:4321/node_modules/.vite/deps/ViteDevServerStopped-67AN5YON.js?v=44bcae91 TypeError: Failed to fetch dynamically imported module: http://localhost:4321/node_modules/.vite/deps/ViteDevServerStopped-67AN5YON.js?v=44bcae91
The file does not exist at (root)/node_modules/.vite/deps/ViteDevServerStopped-67AN5YON.js?v=44bcae91 which is in the optimize deps directory. The dependency might be incompatible with the dep optimizer. Try adding it to optimizeDeps.exclude.
Summary
I spent a good amount of time exploring solutions, to no avail. I updated optimizeDeps.exclude as described, but it gave me the same error. I still don’t really know what Vite does, and I’m not sure what the problem is or how to solve it.
I noticed thta the prerequisites say: “Before taking on the guide, make sure that you have Node.js 18 and npm 9 (or another package manager) or a version above installed.” My node is 20 & my npm is 10, so maybe something has been lost in the upgrades.
So the question is: Do I give up on Sanity or Astro?
I was learning towards sticking with Sanity. I still wanted to use a framework that I have no experience with, so I went with Gatsby. But after reading the Gatsby with Sanity Guide, I reconsidered. The “Sanity is great for” section doesn’t list anything I care about, and the “Sanity is not-so-great for” describes me perfectly.
Plus I just spent all this time going through the Astro tutorial, and I’d like to keep building on my skills there. So I’m going to give Contentful a try.