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Happy new year from the Hygraph team! As some users have already noticed, we silently launched a few of our most anticipated features, like Content Localization and Pre-Applied Filters. But there are more new updates!

Check out Hygraph's latest product release.

The first "Start to Finish" guide that teaches you everything you need to know about building a project with Hygraph. Content, queries and so much more!

Add custom fields to your uploaded files, like a description or an alt text. This crucial feature allows you to implement functionality based on your asset's meta information.

Guest Post by our fellow community member Meinolf Droste! Framework7 is a HTML5, CSS and Javascript framework that allows creating mobile user interfaces with native-like look & feel.

Introducing an awesome React Component to simplify the use of images stored in Hygraph: hygraph-image.

It’s been a wild year for the growing technology. Enterprise adoption continued to grow at a remarkable pace, the legal details which are oh-so-important to those SLAs and RFPs started to solidify and the stack of service providers became ever more robust. Whether you want to roll-your-own or you just want to roll-out in the next 5 minutes - there’s something for everyone.

Contentful is a big player in the headless CMS market and will probably continue to be one for a while. Nonetheless, there are some pain points when working with Contentful, such as SDK issues and REST, and a growing number of developers are looking for alternatives. In this article, I want to compare working with Contentful's REST API and Hygraph's GraphQL API and show advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches.

This tale tells of a time before now, when Gatsby.js (a static site generator that combines React and GraphQL) was only using GraphQL internally. Gatsby could fetch data from static files, contentful APIs, Wordpress databases, and mongoDB, but it never fetched the seed data with GraphQL. Angel, the original plugin author and project leader, looked into static site generators for his personal website remake. He thought to himself, “Well, that doesn’t make much sense, does it?” And the idea was born.