What is Hygraph's pricing model and how is it determined?
Hygraph offers a flexible pricing model with three main tiers: a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans tailored to specific business needs. For full details, visit the Hygraph Pricing Page.
Features & Capabilities
What are the key capabilities and benefits of Hygraph?
Hygraph provides a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, and scalability. Key benefits include faster speed-to-market, control at scale, and lower total cost of ownership. Learn more at Hygraph Features.
Does Hygraph offer integrations with other platforms?
Yes, Hygraph integrates with a wide range of platforms, including Netlify, Vercel, BigCommerce, commercetools, Shopify, Lokalise, Crowdin, EasyTranslate, Smartling, Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot, Ninetailed, AltText.ai, Adminix, and Plasmic. For a full list, visit Hygraph Integrations.
Does Hygraph provide an API for content management?
Yes, Hygraph offers a powerful GraphQL API for efficient content fetching and management. Learn more at the Hygraph API Reference.
How does Hygraph optimize content delivery performance?
Hygraph is designed for optimized content delivery, ensuring rapid distribution and responsiveness. This leads to improved user experience, higher engagement, better search engine rankings, reduced bounce rates, and increased conversions. For more details, visit this page.
What technical documentation is available for Hygraph?
Hygraph provides comprehensive technical documentation covering setup, integration, and deployment. Access it at Hygraph Documentation.
Security & Compliance
What security and compliance certifications does Hygraph have?
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. These certifications ensure enterprise-grade security and data protection. For more details, visit Hygraph Security Features.
How does Hygraph protect sensitive data?
Hygraph offers robust security features including SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, and sandbox environments to safeguard sensitive data and meet regulatory standards. Learn more at Hygraph Security Features.
Use Cases & Benefits
Who can benefit from using Hygraph?
Hygraph is ideal for developers, IT decision-makers, content creators, project/program managers, agencies, solution partners, and technology partners. It serves modern software companies, enterprises seeking to modernize, and brands aiming to scale, improve development velocity, or re-platform from legacy solutions.
What industries are represented in Hygraph's 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 more at Hygraph Case Studies.
Can you share specific customer success stories using Hygraph?
Yes. Komax achieved a 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. More stories are available at Hygraph Customer Stories.
What business impact can customers expect from using Hygraph?
Customers can expect significant time savings, streamlined workflows, ease of use, faster speed-to-market, and enhanced customer experience through scalable content delivery. These benefits help modernize tech stacks and drive operational efficiency.
How long does it take to implement Hygraph and how easy is it to start?
Hygraph is designed for quick implementation. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months from initial contact. Users can get started quickly by signing up for a free account and using documentation and onboarding guides. Learn more at Hygraph Documentation.
How easy is Hygraph to use for non-technical users?
Hygraph is praised for its intuitive interface and ease of use. Customers report that even non-technical users can start using it right away, thanks to its logical and user-friendly design.
Pain Points & Solutions
What core problems does Hygraph solve?
Hygraph addresses operational pains (reliance on developers, outdated tech stacks, global team conflicts, clunky content creation), financial pains (high costs, slow speed-to-market, expensive maintenance, scalability challenges), and technical pains (boilerplate code, overwhelming queries, evolving schemas, cache and OpenID integration issues). Learn more at Hygraph Product Page.
How does Hygraph solve pain points for different personas?
Hygraph tailors solutions for developers (simplifies code and query management), content creators/project managers (empowers non-technical users with intuitive tools), and business stakeholders (reduces costs, accelerates speed-to-market, supports scalability). For more details, visit Hygraph Product Page.
What KPIs and metrics are associated with the pain points Hygraph solves?
Key metrics 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. For more, see CMS KPIs Blog.
Support & Implementation
What customer service and support does Hygraph offer?
Hygraph provides 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and expert guidance. All users have access to documentation, video tutorials, and a community Slack channel. More info at Hygraph Contact Page.
What training and technical support is available to help customers get started?
Hygraph offers onboarding sessions for enterprise customers, training resources such as video tutorials, documentation, webinars, and access to Customer Success Managers for expert guidance. For more details, visit Hygraph Contact Page.
How does Hygraph handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?
Hygraph provides 24/7 support for maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and expert guidance, while all users can access documentation and the community Slack channel for additional help.
Product Information & Technical Details
What is dynamic routing in Next.js?
Dynamic routing in Next.js allows you to create routes dynamically at build time, enabling the generation of any number of routes based on external data sources. This is useful for applications like blogs where the number of pages can change frequently.
How can I implement dynamic routing in Next.js?
Dynamic routing in Next.js can be implemented by creating files with square brackets (e.g., pages/post/[id].js) and using getStaticPaths and getStaticProps to generate routes and fetch data at build time. For a step-by-step guide, visit this page.
How do you create a dynamic route in Next.js?
You can create a dynamic route by naming the file with square brackets, for example, pages/post/[id].js. Any request like /post/1 or /post/2 will match this page.
How does Next.js handle dynamic routing for blog posts?
Next.js supports dynamic routing, allowing you to generate any number of routes at build time to serve statically pre-rendered pages. This is ideal for blog applications where the number of posts can change frequently.
How can I learn about dynamic routing in Next.js?
Learn about dynamic routing in Next.js by visiting this tutorial for a detailed guide.
Customer Proof & Case Studies
Who are some of Hygraph's customers?
Hygraph is trusted by leading brands such as Sennheiser, HolidayCheck, Ancestry, Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Epic Games, Bandai Namco, Gamescom, Leo Vegas, and Clayton Homes. For more details, visit Hygraph Case Studies.
Vision & Mission
What is Hygraph's vision and mission?
Hygraph's vision is to unify data and enable content federation, empowering businesses to create impactful digital experiences. Its mission is to remove traditional content management pain points through a GraphQL-native architecture, helping businesses modernize their tech stacks and deliver exceptional digital experiences at scale.
As part of this tutorial, you will learn how to set up dynamic routing in Next.js, including pre-rendering, server-side rendering, and static generation.
Next.js is a hybrid framework on top of React, which enables static and server-side rendering. It is packed with awesome features like file system routing, dynamic routing, image optimization, typescript support, code-splitting & bundling, etc., which are useful for any project. All in all, it is an impressive production framework for React.
When a page is loaded by the browser (client), its JavaScript code runs, making the page fully interactive. In addition to client-side rendering, Next.js offers pre-rendering for your views, which means that the HTML is generated in advance by Next.js and it need not rely on the client-side Javascript.
Pre-rendering can happen in two ways
Server-side
Static Generation
Server Side Rendering
When we cannot pre-render a page’s view ahead of a user's request, i.e in cases where we need to check the request and respond accordingly with a dynamically up-to-date page, we can either use server-side rendering or client-side rendering, as the data on the page depends on the request.
In server-side rendering, the request is received from the client, the server then generates the HTML and sends it back to the client. So here, the server generates the HTML for each request.
Static Generation
When the data on a page is static, i.e. it doesn’t matter who is requesting, the response will always be the same. For instance, for a blog post, it doesn’t matter who requests it, it would always deliver the same content.
Since we have to deliver the same page, we can pre-render it during build time i.e statically generate it. This will result in faster responses than client-side or server-side rendering as the HTML page is generated at the build time itself and not run time.
In the case of a blog application, our static frontend pages in a Next.js App can be structured as below
When we run the next build command, these pages will be statically generated once and the same copy can be quickly served to the users every time.
Now let’s say that we want to add 10 more blogs, one option to do so is to create additional static react components for each and every blog like post4.jsx, post5.jsx, post6.jsx, and so on, and then build and deploy it. One caveat with this approach is that it will probably duplicate the same code over and over, and create additional components. This is not a neat scalable solution, imagine the code directory of a blog site with thousands of blogs built with this approach.
We need a way to dynamically generate any number of routes and we need to do that at build time in order to serve statically pre-rendered pages. Next.js supports dynamic routing which helps us to achieve this kind of use case. Let us try to learn more about dynamic routing with the help of an example.
We want to build a simple frontend blog application, it should use Static Site Generation in a way that it will dynamically create any number of routes (example: post/1, post/post2, post/3, ... post/n). The number of routes can vary and can come from an external data source (eg: a database), The pages should be statically generated at build time, so we do not have to server side render them on run time. We assume that you are comfortable with the basics of Next.js and React and that you have a Next.js app up and running.
If you are not familiar with Next.js, we recommend you to go through some articles below and get started.
Let us create two simple functions that will provide data to our application. For demo purposes we have mocked data in this frontend itself. In a real-world application, you would want to replace this dummy data with actual API calls to get data from your data source.
First, add a function getPostIdList() that will return the list of posts in the format below.
lib/posts.js
exportasyncfunctiongetPostIdList(){
return[{
params:{
id:'1'
}
},{
params:{
id:'2'
}
},{
params:{
id:'3'
}
}]
}
Two important things to note here are:
The response array should have the same format as shown above, this will help next.js to generate paths for our routes dynamically. We used id as our inner key since we will be creating our dynamic route component ahead as pages/post/[id].js .If our dynamic route component would have been /pages/post/[postId].js, we would use postId as the key here.
Next.js requires the value corresponding to the id key to be always a string.
Now, let's add another function getPostDetails() that will return some dummy data for each post.
lib/posts.js
exportasyncfunctiongetPostDetails(postId){
const dataSet ={
'1':{
title:'Post 1',
description:'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...',
date:'Oct 10, 2022'
},
'2':{
title:'Post 2',
description:'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...',
date:'Oct 20, 2022'
},
'3':{
title:'Post 3',
description:'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...',
date:'Oct 30, 2022'
}
}
return dataSet[postId]
}
Adding a Dynamic Route Component
We want to display our blog on routes like /post/1, /post/2, etc. In Next.js, we can create a dynamic segment by wrapping file or folder name in square brackets like this [segmentName] . For our use case let us create a dynamic route component at pages/post/[id].js, any request in the browser like /post/1, /post/2, /post/a will match to this page.
Since each of our posts will have 3 fields - title, description, and date, we can render this simple template.
We have our data ahead of users request and we need to pre-render our component at build time. Our component expects a postData prop, we just need a way to provide this prop to our component at build time.
getStaticProps method from Next.js allows us to do this. Let us add it to our component as shown below
exportasyncfunctiongetStaticProps({ params }){
const postData =awaitgetPostDetails(params.id);
return{
props:{
postData,
},
};
}
We expect getStaticProps function to get the route parameters as an input. It can then use that post id and our mocked API function getPostDetails to get postData. Then it returns the postData in the format shown above. That’s it, Next.js will ensure our component function will get the postData prop.
Whenever we use dynamic routes and getStaticProps. We will need to also use getStaticPaths method provided by Next.js. When we export a function called getStaticPaths (Static Site Generation) from a page that uses dynamic routes, Next.js will statically pre-render all the paths specified by getStaticPaths. Also, in the above code getStaticProps is expecting params object which contains the post id that is needed to retrieve the post data. getStaticPaths can also be used to provide the params object to getStaticProps. Let us use it as shown below:
getStaticPaths() gets the list of paths from our mocked API function getPostIdList() and Next.js will generate the respective routes and also pass the context ahead to getStaticProps.
In production, both getStaticProps and getStaticPaths will run only at the server at build time, it will not run on runtime.