What were the major product features released by Hygraph in 2021?
In 2021, Hygraph released 23 core new features, including Remote Fields (API Extensions) for content federation, a rebuilt granular permissions system, and UI Extensions for custom app functionality. Other notable releases included new server regions, integrations with Gatsby Cloud, Netlify, and Vercel, major updates to the Rich Text editor, and the launch of Scheduled Publishing. Note: Feature availability may vary by plan; check documentation for current status.
What is the purpose of Remote Fields in Hygraph?
Remote Fields, also known as API Extensions, allow Hygraph users to enrich their projects by sourcing data from external third-party web services. This enables content federation, letting teams combine data from multiple sources into a single content entry point without custom middleware. Note: Remote Fields require configuration and may not be suitable for all use cases; detailed limitations not publicly documented—ask sales for specifics.
How does Hygraph's granular permissions system work?
Hygraph's granular permissions system, launched in April 2021, enables teams to model organizational structures and business logic by creating custom roles for internal and external users. Permissions can be set down to content entries, locales, and conditions, providing detailed access control. Note: Complex permission setups may require careful planning; consult documentation for best practices.
What are UI Extensions in Hygraph and what can they be used for?
UI Extensions, released in summer 2021, allow teams to expand the Hygraph Web app with custom self-hosted applications. Use cases include creating custom Rich Text Editors, adding search fields, or integrating product selectors from platforms like Shopify. Note: Developing UI Extensions requires technical expertise; not all users may need this feature.
What integrations does Hygraph support?
Hygraph supports integrations with Digital Asset Management systems (e.g., Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Imgix, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot), hosting and deployment platforms (Netlify, Vercel), Product Information Management (Akeneo), commerce solutions (BigCommerce), and translation/localization tools (EasyTranslate). For a full list, visit the Hygraph Marketplace. Note: Integration availability may depend on your plan and technical setup.
What APIs does Hygraph provide?
Hygraph offers several APIs: the GraphQL Content API for querying and manipulating content, the Management API for project structure, the Asset Upload API for asset management, and the MCP Server API for AI assistant integration. Detailed documentation is available at Hygraph API Reference. Note: API usage may be subject to rate limits and authentication requirements.
Product Milestones & Recognition
What were Hygraph's key company milestones in 2021?
In 2021, Hygraph raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by OpenOcean, bringing total funding to $13.7 million. The company joined the MACH Alliance, co-organized GraphQL Conf. 2021 with over 6,000 attendees, and was recognized as a "Leader" in the Headless CMS category on G2, as well as in DXP, CCMS, and Web CMS categories. Note: Funding and recognition reflect 2021 status; check for updates on recent milestones.
What is the MACH Alliance and why did Hygraph join?
The MACH Alliance advocates for modular, API-first, cloud-native, and headless technology architectures. Hygraph joined the MACH Alliance in 2021 to align with these principles and support businesses in building composable tech stacks rather than relying on monolithic suites. Note: Membership does not guarantee compatibility with all MACH-certified products; verify integration requirements as needed.
How has Hygraph been recognized in the industry?
Hygraph was named a "Leader" in the Headless CMS category on G2 in 2021 and received recognition in DXP, CCMS, and Web CMS categories. The platform was also cited as the "Most Preferred Jamstack Headless CMS" in Kentico's State of Jamstack report and as a "Trusted DXP Vendor" by Forrester in the NowTech report. Note: Rankings and recognitions are subject to change; refer to the latest reports for current status.
Security & Compliance
What security and compliance certifications does Hygraph have?
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (achieved August 3, 2022), ISO 27001 certified for its hosting infrastructure, and GDPR compliant. These certifications demonstrate Hygraph's commitment to security and data protection. Note: Certification scope may vary; review documentation for details on coverage.
What security features does Hygraph offer?
Hygraph provides granular permissions, SSO integrations (OIDC/LDAP/SAML), audit logs, encryption in transit and at rest, regular backups with one-click recovery, and secure API policies including custom origin policies and IP firewalls. All endpoints use SSL certificates. Note: Some features may be limited to specific plans or require configuration.
Use Cases & Benefits
What problems does Hygraph solve for its users?
Hygraph addresses operational inefficiencies (reducing developer dependency, modernizing legacy tech stacks, ensuring content consistency), financial challenges (lowering operational costs, accelerating speed-to-market, supporting scalability), and technical issues (simplifying schema evolution, integrating third-party systems, optimizing performance, and managing localization/assets). Note: Suitability depends on your organization's specific needs; detailed limitations not publicly documented—ask sales for specifics.
Who can benefit from using Hygraph?
Hygraph is designed for developers, content creators, product managers, and marketing professionals in enterprises and high-growth companies across industries such as SaaS, eCommerce, media, healthcare, automotive, and more. Its versatility supports a wide range of use cases, from content federation to omnichannel delivery. Note: Some advanced features may require technical expertise or specific plan levels.
What business impact have customers seen with Hygraph?
Customers have reported faster time-to-market (e.g., Komax achieved 3x faster launches), improved customer engagement (Samsung saw a 15% increase), cost reduction, and enhanced content consistency. AutoWeb increased website monetization by 20%, and Voi scaled multilingual content across 12 countries. Note: Results vary by implementation; not all customers will achieve the same outcomes.
Which industries are represented in Hygraph's case studies?
Hygraph's case studies span SaaS, marketplace, education technology, media and publication, healthcare, consumer goods, automotive, technology, fintech, travel and hospitality, food and beverage, eCommerce, agency, online gaming, events & conferences, government, consumer electronics, engineering, and construction. Note: Industry fit depends on your specific requirements.
Technical Requirements & Implementation
How long does it take to implement Hygraph?
Implementation timelines vary: Top Villas launched a new project within 2 months, and Voi migrated from WordPress to Hygraph in 1-2 months. Si Vale met aggressive deadlines in their initial phase. Note: Actual timelines depend on project complexity and team resources.
What technical documentation is available for Hygraph?
Hygraph provides extensive documentation, including API references, schema guides, getting started tutorials, integration guides, and AI feature documentation. Classic documentation is available for legacy users. Access all resources at Hygraph Documentation. Note: Documentation is updated regularly; check for the latest guides.
Support & Customer Experience
What feedback have customers given about Hygraph's ease of use?
Customers have praised Hygraph for its intuitive interface, quick adaptability, and accessibility for non-technical users. Feedback highlights include instant front-end updates, clear setup, and granular roles/permissions that streamline workflows. Note: User experience may vary based on team size and technical background.
What onboarding and support resources does Hygraph offer?
Hygraph offers structured onboarding (introduction calls, account provisioning, technical kickoffs), extensive documentation, starter projects, community Slack, webinars, live streams, and 24/7 technical support. Sign up for a free account at app.hygraph.com/signup. Note: Support levels may vary by plan; check your agreement for details.
Product Performance
How does Hygraph perform in terms of content delivery and API speed?
Hygraph has optimized its endpoints for low latency and high read-throughput, with a read-only cache endpoint delivering 3-5x latency improvement. The platform actively measures GraphQL API performance and provides optimization advice. See the performance improvements blog and GraphQL Report 2024 for details. Note: Actual performance may vary based on usage patterns and infrastructure.
2021's coming to an end, and we've had an incredible year! Here are our favorite highlights and moments we'd like to share with you.
Last updated by Michael & Daniel
on Jan 21, 2026
Originally written by Michael & Daniel
As 2021 comes to an end, we wanted to continue the new tradition from last year and share some highlights and milestones that have made this year an incredible one for us at Hygraph.
2021 was definitely the most release-packed year we’ve had on record. With 23 core new features and countless other improvements shipped, here’s a summary of our favorite releases throughout the year.
Shipping All The Things
The first release of the year was the rollout of our Management SDK, and the most recent release included the much-requested Scheduled Publishing.
With consistent releases every month, here’s a rundown of the top 3 releases that were closest to our hearts.
Remote Fields
Remote Fields, or API Extensions, were the first piece of the puzzle that we like to call Content Federation - enabling teams to build optimized, data-rich applications, where teams can use existing services paired with new microservices to build user-friendly applications with a single content entry point. Teams will be able to load data from a single, manageable interface, sparing developers from having to create custom middleware.
A remote field is a custom resolver entry point for your schema and allows data to be sourced from an external third-party web service and accept field values from other Hygraph fields as arguments. Remote fields empower you to enrich their Hygraph projects with data from external services easily and programmatically.
To get a first-hand experience of API Extensions and Content Federation in practice, get in touch.
Granular Permissions
In April, we launched a brand new permissions system – a complete rebuild from the ground up. This new approach enables teams to model their organizational structures and business logic and makes it possible to restrict visibility and access as required to a highly specific level. Teams are now able to create custom roles for internal and external users, and tokens, to give more control over who has access to what content and their ability to interact with that content.
This made us the first headless content platform to enable true enterprise-grade permission systems - down to content entries, locales, and conditions.
UI Extensions
The summer rolled along with our release of UI Extensions. UI Extensions give teams the ability to expand the functionality of the Hygraph Web app with custom self-hosted applications. Just some of the many use cases include creating your own Rich Text Editor, adding custom fields to search, and choosing products from a Shopify catalog, and much, much more.
And So Much More
We also took note of the other notable releases from the year compiled into a convenient list.
Rolled out new shared clusters in Canada (Montreal), United Kingdom (London), India (Mumbai), Australia (Sydney), and Brazil (São Paulo).
Released our first official integration – for Gatsby Cloud, closely followed by integrations for Netlify and Vercel.
Made major updates to gatsby-source-hygraph to align with the launch of Gatsby V3, and then again for Gatsby V4.
Released a new “How to Hygraph” playlist to get you up to speed with all the product functionality you need.
Published the new commerce starter, built using Hygraph, TailwindCSS, Next.js, and Stripe.
Made major improvements to our Rich Text editor, bringing in an HTML-to-AST converter, a React renderer, and allowing for Inline Embeds and Embeds for all models.
Created the new Community and Showcase sections to highlight your work
Gained recognition as the “Most Preferred Jamstack Headless CMS” on Kentico’s “State of Jamstack” report, and as a “Trusted DXP Vendor” by Forrester in their NowTech report.
We also shared several milestones as we grew as a company. It took some work, but here are the 5 moments we’re proudest of - showing the love and trust we’ve gained from you all!
Raising Series A
This summer we announced that we raised a $10 million Series A funding round. As we transition towards Content Federation, this was a great milestone for us towards validating our vision of unifying the content layer, as teams strive to build more complex applications with simpler implementations.
The round was led by OpenOcean, and previous investors Peak and Paua Ventures also participated, bringing our total funding to $13.7 million. Mango Capital’s Robin Vasan (investor in HashiCorp, Netlify, and others), Fauna founder and CTO, Evan Weaver, and Instana (acquired by IBM) founder and CEO Mirko Novakovic also joined this round.
GraphQL Conf. 2021
One of our favorite moments of 2021 was GraphQL Conf.! After taking a year off in 2020, GraphQL Conf returned, with us co-organizing it with commercetools and bringing the conference in a new digital format with the same great content and passionate community. With over 6,000 attendees joining from across the world, we had some incredible talks on the topics of GraphQL in Production, GraphQL Security, GraphQL Federation, and GraphQL Testing, to name a few.
Thank you to honeypot and Prisma for trusting us with inheriting the conference and all that you have built in the last couple of years. We look forward to growing the GraphQL community even further.
As an API-first Headless CMS, the principles of the MACH Alliance had long been part of our product and business. We were, and are, fierce advocates for businesses defining their business models by adopting modular, best-of-breed microservices, rather than using inflexible monolithic suites.
Joining the Alliance was a no-brainer for us – as this approach represents the future of software, where companies are in charge of defining composable tech stacks that are perfectly aligned with scaling their business model, rather than adapting to inflexible monolithic suites that slow them down or have them compromise on their ambition.
Leaders in Headless Content Management
One of the final milestones for us came at the end of the year, as we emerged as a “Leader” in the Headless CMS category on G2. We've additionally earned new recognition within the categories of DXP (Digital Experience Platform), CCMS (Component CMS), and Web CMS.
With several 5-star reviews across the board, we’re particularly proud to see our customers recognizing us as a leading Headless CMS for their use-cases, and are looking forward to delivering even more in 2022, ensuring to remain the Headless CMS of choice for many more.
To share your own opinions on Hygraph and help us reach others, write your review!
As we prepare for a little downtime over the holidays, we’re pumped for making 2022 bigger and better! There are tons of new ideas, features, and plans we’re itching to get started on. Here’s a small teaser of what 2022 looks like for us right now.
Focusing on Federation
At this time last year, we announced our evolution from “Headless Content Management” to “Headless Content Federation”. We wanted to push the boundaries of a Headless CMS further and worked towards how we could empower developers to do more when maintaining less. Tackling and liberating vast amounts of complex siloed data is laborious, slowing down enterprises’ product development cycles, and limiting agile content distribution.
With Content Federation, companies can build complex applications while streamlining all their data from a single source of truth. Within a single call to Hygraph’s API, all these sources and content can be combined and served to a viewer within milliseconds to ensure a seamless digital experience.
The possibilities this unlocks for companies across several verticals as they look to build an “aggregation layer” for their digital experience architectures are endless – giving developers the ability to focus on building incredible products, rather than maintaining them.
Much of our focus as a product will be on improving our Federation offering, as we strive to enable cleaner, leaner stacks with high-performant GraphQL APIs.
What’s on the Roadmap?
We’re getting set to hit the ground running as soon as the new year starts with several new features and improvements planned for 2022. Here’s a sneak peek at what we’re going to be focusing on earlier on in the year:
A UI for API Extensions: Configuring remote fields is currently only possible via API using the Hygraph Management SDK. To make connecting to external services easier and more intuitive, we’re launching a new UI flow within the Schema Builder to seamlessly integrate with other REST and GraphQL APIs.
Improved GraphQL Support for Content Federation: GraphQL Federation and API Management is exciting territory for us within the realm of Content Management. We’ll be doubling down on improving GraphQL API support and introducing new features to streamline the data being queried from remote sources.
Modular Components: As the most voted-for feature request from the community, we’re thrilled to be shipping out Modular Components early in Q1. Modular Components allow you to create “components”, a new field type within Hygraph, that enable building rich layouts and structured content blocks with repeatable fields such as navigations, footers, sections, and more.
Modular Components will be available on all plans, and currently do not count towards content entry limits.
Integrations Marketplace: Another highly requested one from the community – we’re excited about rolling out a brand new integrations marketplace! While we’ve been building integrations, UI Extensions, recipes, and more, we want to make it easier for you to get started working with Hygraph in tandem with your favorite tools.
Collaboration and Advanced Workflows: Content Operations are so much more than just Content Management. To make it easier for larger teams to work together, we’re pushing out several workflow improvements and collaboration tools to create custom workflows that adapt to your specific needs.
We’re Growing!
We started 2021 with a team of ~20 individuals spread across the world, and are ending the year with a headcount of over 50! It’s been incredible seeing more passionate colleagues join the team to share their experience and knowledge, keeping us grounded and on the right path.
We welcomed several new faces across all our teams, with a particular focus on the Engineering and Product Teams.
As we continue to grow more, we’re hiring across all teams! We’re a fully remote company and are committed to building a world-class team across several regions, so keep an eye out for any positions that may be a suitable match for you, and get in touch with us!
Looking through this, calling this a packed year would be an understatement. We have a lot more to accomplish together in 2022, but for now, it’s time to recharge a bit and gain some holiday weight.
Until Next Year,
Michael and Daniel
Blog Authors
Michael Lukaszczyk
Daniel Winter
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2021's coming to an end, and we've had an incredible year! Here are our favorite highlights and moments we'd like to share with you.
Last updated by Michael & Daniel
on Jan 21, 2026
Originally written by Michael & Daniel
As 2021 comes to an end, we wanted to continue the new tradition from last year and share some highlights and milestones that have made this year an incredible one for us at Hygraph.
2021 was definitely the most release-packed year we’ve had on record. With 23 core new features and countless other improvements shipped, here’s a summary of our favorite releases throughout the year.
Shipping All The Things
The first release of the year was the rollout of our Management SDK, and the most recent release included the much-requested Scheduled Publishing.
With consistent releases every month, here’s a rundown of the top 3 releases that were closest to our hearts.
Remote Fields
Remote Fields, or API Extensions, were the first piece of the puzzle that we like to call Content Federation - enabling teams to build optimized, data-rich applications, where teams can use existing services paired with new microservices to build user-friendly applications with a single content entry point. Teams will be able to load data from a single, manageable interface, sparing developers from having to create custom middleware.
A remote field is a custom resolver entry point for your schema and allows data to be sourced from an external third-party web service and accept field values from other Hygraph fields as arguments. Remote fields empower you to enrich their Hygraph projects with data from external services easily and programmatically.
To get a first-hand experience of API Extensions and Content Federation in practice, get in touch.
Granular Permissions
In April, we launched a brand new permissions system – a complete rebuild from the ground up. This new approach enables teams to model their organizational structures and business logic and makes it possible to restrict visibility and access as required to a highly specific level. Teams are now able to create custom roles for internal and external users, and tokens, to give more control over who has access to what content and their ability to interact with that content.
This made us the first headless content platform to enable true enterprise-grade permission systems - down to content entries, locales, and conditions.
UI Extensions
The summer rolled along with our release of UI Extensions. UI Extensions give teams the ability to expand the functionality of the Hygraph Web app with custom self-hosted applications. Just some of the many use cases include creating your own Rich Text Editor, adding custom fields to search, and choosing products from a Shopify catalog, and much, much more.
And So Much More
We also took note of the other notable releases from the year compiled into a convenient list.
Rolled out new shared clusters in Canada (Montreal), United Kingdom (London), India (Mumbai), Australia (Sydney), and Brazil (São Paulo).
Released our first official integration – for Gatsby Cloud, closely followed by integrations for Netlify and Vercel.
Made major updates to gatsby-source-hygraph to align with the launch of Gatsby V3, and then again for Gatsby V4.
Released a new “How to Hygraph” playlist to get you up to speed with all the product functionality you need.
Published the new commerce starter, built using Hygraph, TailwindCSS, Next.js, and Stripe.
Made major improvements to our Rich Text editor, bringing in an HTML-to-AST converter, a React renderer, and allowing for Inline Embeds and Embeds for all models.
Created the new Community and Showcase sections to highlight your work
Gained recognition as the “Most Preferred Jamstack Headless CMS” on Kentico’s “State of Jamstack” report, and as a “Trusted DXP Vendor” by Forrester in their NowTech report.
We also shared several milestones as we grew as a company. It took some work, but here are the 5 moments we’re proudest of - showing the love and trust we’ve gained from you all!
Raising Series A
This summer we announced that we raised a $10 million Series A funding round. As we transition towards Content Federation, this was a great milestone for us towards validating our vision of unifying the content layer, as teams strive to build more complex applications with simpler implementations.
The round was led by OpenOcean, and previous investors Peak and Paua Ventures also participated, bringing our total funding to $13.7 million. Mango Capital’s Robin Vasan (investor in HashiCorp, Netlify, and others), Fauna founder and CTO, Evan Weaver, and Instana (acquired by IBM) founder and CEO Mirko Novakovic also joined this round.
GraphQL Conf. 2021
One of our favorite moments of 2021 was GraphQL Conf.! After taking a year off in 2020, GraphQL Conf returned, with us co-organizing it with commercetools and bringing the conference in a new digital format with the same great content and passionate community. With over 6,000 attendees joining from across the world, we had some incredible talks on the topics of GraphQL in Production, GraphQL Security, GraphQL Federation, and GraphQL Testing, to name a few.
Thank you to honeypot and Prisma for trusting us with inheriting the conference and all that you have built in the last couple of years. We look forward to growing the GraphQL community even further.
As an API-first Headless CMS, the principles of the MACH Alliance had long been part of our product and business. We were, and are, fierce advocates for businesses defining their business models by adopting modular, best-of-breed microservices, rather than using inflexible monolithic suites.
Joining the Alliance was a no-brainer for us – as this approach represents the future of software, where companies are in charge of defining composable tech stacks that are perfectly aligned with scaling their business model, rather than adapting to inflexible monolithic suites that slow them down or have them compromise on their ambition.
Leaders in Headless Content Management
One of the final milestones for us came at the end of the year, as we emerged as a “Leader” in the Headless CMS category on G2. We've additionally earned new recognition within the categories of DXP (Digital Experience Platform), CCMS (Component CMS), and Web CMS.
With several 5-star reviews across the board, we’re particularly proud to see our customers recognizing us as a leading Headless CMS for their use-cases, and are looking forward to delivering even more in 2022, ensuring to remain the Headless CMS of choice for many more.
To share your own opinions on Hygraph and help us reach others, write your review!
As we prepare for a little downtime over the holidays, we’re pumped for making 2022 bigger and better! There are tons of new ideas, features, and plans we’re itching to get started on. Here’s a small teaser of what 2022 looks like for us right now.
Focusing on Federation
At this time last year, we announced our evolution from “Headless Content Management” to “Headless Content Federation”. We wanted to push the boundaries of a Headless CMS further and worked towards how we could empower developers to do more when maintaining less. Tackling and liberating vast amounts of complex siloed data is laborious, slowing down enterprises’ product development cycles, and limiting agile content distribution.
With Content Federation, companies can build complex applications while streamlining all their data from a single source of truth. Within a single call to Hygraph’s API, all these sources and content can be combined and served to a viewer within milliseconds to ensure a seamless digital experience.
The possibilities this unlocks for companies across several verticals as they look to build an “aggregation layer” for their digital experience architectures are endless – giving developers the ability to focus on building incredible products, rather than maintaining them.
Much of our focus as a product will be on improving our Federation offering, as we strive to enable cleaner, leaner stacks with high-performant GraphQL APIs.
What’s on the Roadmap?
We’re getting set to hit the ground running as soon as the new year starts with several new features and improvements planned for 2022. Here’s a sneak peek at what we’re going to be focusing on earlier on in the year:
A UI for API Extensions: Configuring remote fields is currently only possible via API using the Hygraph Management SDK. To make connecting to external services easier and more intuitive, we’re launching a new UI flow within the Schema Builder to seamlessly integrate with other REST and GraphQL APIs.
Improved GraphQL Support for Content Federation: GraphQL Federation and API Management is exciting territory for us within the realm of Content Management. We’ll be doubling down on improving GraphQL API support and introducing new features to streamline the data being queried from remote sources.
Modular Components: As the most voted-for feature request from the community, we’re thrilled to be shipping out Modular Components early in Q1. Modular Components allow you to create “components”, a new field type within Hygraph, that enable building rich layouts and structured content blocks with repeatable fields such as navigations, footers, sections, and more.
Modular Components will be available on all plans, and currently do not count towards content entry limits.
Integrations Marketplace: Another highly requested one from the community – we’re excited about rolling out a brand new integrations marketplace! While we’ve been building integrations, UI Extensions, recipes, and more, we want to make it easier for you to get started working with Hygraph in tandem with your favorite tools.
Collaboration and Advanced Workflows: Content Operations are so much more than just Content Management. To make it easier for larger teams to work together, we’re pushing out several workflow improvements and collaboration tools to create custom workflows that adapt to your specific needs.
We’re Growing!
We started 2021 with a team of ~20 individuals spread across the world, and are ending the year with a headcount of over 50! It’s been incredible seeing more passionate colleagues join the team to share their experience and knowledge, keeping us grounded and on the right path.
We welcomed several new faces across all our teams, with a particular focus on the Engineering and Product Teams.
As we continue to grow more, we’re hiring across all teams! We’re a fully remote company and are committed to building a world-class team across several regions, so keep an eye out for any positions that may be a suitable match for you, and get in touch with us!
Looking through this, calling this a packed year would be an understatement. We have a lot more to accomplish together in 2022, but for now, it’s time to recharge a bit and gain some holiday weight.
Until Next Year,
Michael and Daniel
Blog Authors
Michael Lukaszczyk
Daniel Winter
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