Hygraph Studio is an all-new virtual platform designed to optimize content management for both developers and editors. Launched in beta in March 2024, it introduces a modern, intuitive experience for working with content, including features like instant one-click backup recovery and a redesigned user interface for improved performance and reliability. Learn more.
Key features of Hygraph Studio include:
Hygraph Studio streamlines editor workflows with a redesigned content table, custom views for search and filtering, hover cards for quick field previews, and pop-ups for image previews. The enhanced content form and field outline make navigation easier, while lazy loading and a search bar for components speed up content creation. These improvements reduce clutter and make daily tasks more efficient for editors. Read more.
Hygraph Studio boosts developer efficiency by offering regional deployments of the management server, reducing latency and improving disaster recovery. The platform has transitioned from a SPA to a full-stack SSR-first Remix app, enhancing performance, security, and observability. Features like the command menu, enhanced schema view, OAuth support, and a new API playground help developers iterate and build applications faster. Asset management improvements allow projects with 10,000 assets to be cloned in under a few minutes, compared to 80 minutes previously. Learn more.
Hygraph Studio has dedicated documentation available at studio-docs.hygraph.com. The documentation is in beta and regularly updated to reflect new features and parity with Hygraph Classic. It helps users find guidance on using Studio's capabilities and identifies feature availability across versions.
Hygraph offers a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, and scalability. Key capabilities include rapid content delivery, flexible content modeling, strong permissions engine, and efficient API for both read and write operations. These features enable businesses to create impactful digital experiences and unify data from multiple sources. See all features.
Yes, Hygraph supports a wide range of integrations, including Netlify, Vercel, BigCommerce, commercetools, Shopify, Lokalise, Crowdin, EasyTranslate, Smartling, Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot, Ninetailed, AltText.ai, Adminix, and Plasmic. See all integrations.
Yes, Hygraph provides a powerful GraphQL API for efficient content fetching and management. The API supports both read and write operations and is designed to function similarly to querying a database. API Reference.
Hygraph emphasizes optimized content delivery performance, which improves user experience, engagement, and search engine rankings. Features like regional deployments, granular cache invalidation, and rapid asset delivery help reduce bounce rates and increase conversions. Learn more.
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans. For detailed information, visit the pricing page.
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. These certifications ensure enterprise-grade security and data protection for users. Security Features.
Hygraph provides SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, and sandbox environments to protect sensitive data and meet regulatory standards. Learn more.
Hygraph is ideal for developers, IT decision-makers, content creators, project/program managers, agencies, solution partners, and technology partners. Companies that benefit most include modern software companies, enterprises seeking to modernize their tech stack, and brands aiming to scale across geographies or improve development velocity. See case studies.
Hygraph's case studies span industries such as food and beverage (Dr. Oetker), consumer electronics (Samsung), automotive (AutoWeb), healthcare (Vision Healthcare), travel and hospitality (HolidayCheck), media and publishing, eCommerce, SaaS (Bellhop), marketplace, education technology, and wellness and fitness. Explore case studies.
Yes. Komax achieved 3X faster time to market, Autoweb saw a 20% increase in website monetization, Samsung improved customer engagement with a scalable platform, and Dr. Oetker enhanced their digital experience using MACH architecture. See more success stories.
Customers can expect significant time savings, ease of use, faster speed-to-market, and enhanced customer experience through consistent and scalable content delivery. These benefits help businesses modernize their tech stack and achieve operational efficiency. Learn more.
Hygraph solves operational pains (reliance on developers for content updates, outdated tech stacks, conflicting global team needs, clunky user experiences), financial pains (high operational costs, slow speed-to-market, expensive maintenance, scalability challenges), and technical pains (boilerplate code, overwhelming queries, evolving schemas, cache problems, OpenID integration challenges). See how Hygraph solves these pains.
For developers, Hygraph reduces boilerplate code and streamlines query management. For content creators and project managers, it offers an intuitive interface for independent content updates. For business stakeholders, Hygraph lowers operational costs, supports scalability, and accelerates speed-to-market. Learn more.
KPIs include time saved on content updates, system uptime, consistency across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, time to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. See more on CMS KPIs.
Hygraph Studio is designed for ease of use. Users can sign up for a free account and access onboarding guides, documentation, and video tutorials. Even non-technical users can start using it right away. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months. See documentation.
Hygraph offers 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and expert guidance. All users have access to documentation, video tutorials, webinars, and a community Slack channel. Contact support.
Hygraph provides 24/7 support for maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Enterprise customers benefit from dedicated onboarding and expert guidance, while all users can access detailed documentation and community resources. Learn more.
Hygraph stands out with its GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, and scalability. It empowers non-technical users, modernizes legacy tech stacks, and streamlines workflows, offering advantages in flexibility, speed-to-market, and cost efficiency compared to traditional CMS platforms. See product details.
Hygraph is trusted by leading brands such as Sennheiser, HolidayCheck, Ancestry, Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Epic Games, Bandai Namco, Gamescom, Leo Vegas, and Clayton Homes. See customer case studies.
Customers praise Hygraph for its intuitive interface and ease of use, noting that even non-technical users can start using it right away. The user interface is described as logical and user-friendly, making it accessible for both technical and non-technical teams. Read more feedback.
Written by Shahan
on Apr 17, 2024In March, we launched Hygraph Studio in beta. As part of the launch, we hosted five insightful sessions sharing our vision for the Future of Content and how Hygraph Studio optimizes performance and user-friendliness, improves reliability, and boosts developer efficiency.
Here’s a quick recap of our product launch sessions.
At Hygraph, we see many instances in which content is now becoming the product itself instead of being the means to promote your products.
Examples include Netflix providing videos, Blinklist providing book reviews, Peloton selling its fitness experience, etc. Content is an essential part of these applications and drives their business.
This fundamental change in how content is perceived drives brands and businesses to build content-rich digital products rather than just information websites or marketing offerings. Hence, they expect more from a content platform or CMS.
To power content-rich applications, you need:
At Hygraph, we’ve designed our APIs and capabilities very closely to the usual software development stack, similar to a database and backend as a service rather than a straightforward content authoring tool for read-only use cases.
To illustrate Hygraph’s approach to content management, let’s consider two extremes: one where marketing teams need to create static landing pages with less frequent content changes — page builders shine best for this use case. The other is where you need the flexibility of a database to power content-rich applications, where content changes frequently and is delivered across platforms and channels — and Hygraph is best suited for these requirements.
In addition to the CMS capabilities, organizations must consider having an interoperable and composable architecture that allows content providers to adapt to new markets and technologies.
Only a decoupled CMS system can adapt to these unique requirements and enable content creators, developers, and marketers to work independently and efficiently.
Organizations must also consider how they pull the content needed for their applications from different sources. This content will likely not be available in a single place.
Content Federation, offered by Hygraph, is a step in this direction.
With content becoming the product, we believe large language models can add value in more complex use cases than content creation.
At Hygraph, we are working proactively to extend this in a few important directions:
This session started with a discussion about our investment in performance to deliver on the promise of the Future of Content.
Our first significant change was the new regional deployments of the management server. The Management API is now located in the same region as your content. This translates to faster load times, improved disaster recovery, and reduced latency for management operations across all regions.
Secondly, we’ve rebuilt the user interface from the ground up to improve performance—going from a Single-Page Application (SPA) to a full-stack Server-Side Rendering (SSR) first Remix app. Improvements under the hood boost performance, security, observability, and testing.
In addition, some of the other new features for developers include:
These major enhancements allow developers to work more productively, iterating and building digital applications much faster.
All new, blank projects now feature the new Hygraph Asset Management System, designed to improve performance and reliability — we’ve recorded quicker asset delivery times and reduced time to clone environments or entire projects.
On the higher end, projects with 10,000 assets that used to take 80 minutes to clone can now be cloned in under a few minutes.
In a more typical use case, if you have about 1000 assets, the project will be cloned in under a minute with the new system.
The new asset system also offers:
Last year, we introduced model-and-stage-based cache invalidation. With the launch of the Studio, we made things more granular — we invalidated the cache for changes to individual content entries.
As a result, it improves the cache hit ratio, reduces latency, and, most importantly, allows websites and applications to load faster for your end-users.
With Studio, we have also built a new documentation project at studio-docs.hygraph.com
Designed to help users find the guidance they need, the new documentation is also in beta. As we progress on Hygraph Studio feature parity and updates, you will notice regular updates to the documentation, too. At various points, we also identify whether a feature is available in Studio, Classic, or both.
On day three, the focus was on editor productivity.
The redesigned Content Table makes things less cluttered by emphasizing the title field.
The new and improved Custom Views simplify Search and Filtering, and hover cards allow editors to quickly scan the fields within content entries without opening them.
New pop-ups help editors quickly see information contained within the entries. This is particularly useful for images, and the new pop-up for image preview further helps here.
The first thing you’ll notice is a revamped content form when you open a content entry.
The new Field Outline is displayed to the left of this content form. It shows the structure of the content entry, and clicking on an item in the outline takes you to that field in the content form.
The Components section within the form got an upgrade — it loads faster through lazy loading. It features a search bar to help you quickly find the Component you are looking for (especially useful when dealing with multiple nested Components).
This workshop featured a live coding session during which we built a stock image website using the new Hygraph Asset Management System and NuxtJS—in just 40 minutes, using the Hygraph Assets model without additional Content Models.
How did our Developer Relations team do this?
You can access the resources needed for this here:
Our final panel session involved a deep dive into the nerdy details of the key decisions while building the new Hygraph Studio and their impact on application performance.
The engineers spoke about:
They wrapped up with a demo of the new caching strategy, showcasing how a change to a content entry only invalidates the cache for that entry.
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