The July 2022 product update introduced several new features, including the general availability of Remote Sources, the release of Nested Components, and usability improvements such as the ability to hide the schema view, enhanced empty states, and a streamlined project creation flow. These updates aim to improve both developer and editor experiences. Source
Remote Sources allow users to extend Hygraph’s Content API by federating content from third-party systems (RESTful or GraphQL APIs) into a single API. This enables seamless integration of external data sources like BigCommerce, Shopify, Zendesk, GitHub, Fauna, and IMDB. The feature uses a low-code approach and caching infrastructure for high performance. Learn more | Documentation
Nested Components allow users to create reusable, multi-level content structures within Hygraph. You can nest up to 4 levels of components, enabling complex schemas and editorial flexibility. This feature streamlines content creation, declutters the UI, and empowers editors to build and manage sophisticated content layouts without switching between multiple screens. Documentation
Usability improvements include the ability to hide the schema view for editors via custom roles, a simplified project creation workflow, and enhanced empty states that help users discover features and deploy pre-built examples more easily. These changes aim to reduce friction and accelerate onboarding and project velocity. Source
The App Framework is a new extensibility feature (currently in closed beta) that allows third-party web applications to integrate with Hygraph, similar to UI Extensions but with greater power and flexibility. Interested users can join the beta program by signing up here. Source
Hygraph offers a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, and scalability. Key benefits include faster speed-to-market, control at scale, and lower total cost of ownership. Hygraph also provides integrations with platforms like Netlify, Vercel, Shopify, BigCommerce, and more. Learn more
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Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans. For full details, visit the pricing page.
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It offers enterprise-grade security features such as SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, and sandbox environments. Security Features
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 globally or improve development velocity. Case Studies
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Yes. Komax achieved a 3X faster time to market, Autoweb saw a 20% increase in website monetization, Samsung improved customer engagement with scalable content delivery, and Dr. Oetker enhanced their digital experience using MACH architecture. More success stories
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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
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, accelerates speed-to-market, and supports scalability. Details
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Hygraph is designed for quick onboarding, even for non-technical users. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months. Users can sign up for a free account and access documentation, tutorials, and onboarding guides. Documentation
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on Jul 28, 2022Following the pre-release of Remote Fields in March 2022, the feature set allowing to extend Hygraph’s Content API with content from third-party sources is now available to all users under the name of Remote Sources.
A Remote Source is any system or product that holds content or data that should be combined with content in Hygraph into a single API, while a Remote Field refers to a field inside a Hygraph model that connects specific remote data to an entry of that model. With our unique low-code approach to federation, you can combine data from any RESTful or GraphQL API with content stored in Hygraph through our easy use UI. Our caching infrastructure ensures amazing performance for the resulting federated API.
Within the first two weeks since its launch, we have seen 100s of projects starting to make use of both RESTtful and GraphQL Remote Resources as diverse as BigCommerce, Shopify, Zendesk, GitHub, Fauna, IMDB, and many others.
Read more about Remote Sources →
Remote Sources Documentation →
Since their introduction, components enabled a pre-defined set of fields to be re-usable across models and content entries, making content creation significantly faster by reducing complexity. Nested components enhance this functionality by bringing even more flexibility in building repeatable content entries.
Using nested components, you can have a parent component where one or more components are nested. This would allow you to, for instance, create a section and a subsection component and then embed one into the other.
The ability to build complex components made from several smaller components gives you more flexibility in how you model your schema and a more user-friendly interface for your content creators.
On the Schema side, you can create complex nested structures. For example, you can allow editors to create different parts of your website using the Section component that would host an array of other components. Those could be Hero, Flip-card, Image gallery, Video block, etc. All of the second level components can have lower level components too. Such content structure allows for unmatched editorial creativity, as well as the ability to specify what each section of your page can have.
On the Editor side, content professionals can edit their entries in one go. No more going back and forth between different building blocks - everything can be set up on the same page. In addition, nested components help “declutter” the UI: you won’t see all of the fields on your content entry until you choose to add the necessary component.
Nested components allow up to 4 levels of nesting, enabling use cases previously considered tedious to implement with relations.
Read more about how to use nested components in our documentation.
To provide an even more streamlined editor experience for content creators, you can now make the schema view fully hidden through a custom role definition. This brings further flexibility in how you would like to define restrictions.
The project creation workflow has been simplified in order to provide the user the most efficient path during their product evaluation and everyday usage. Unnecessary friction through the inclusion of additional screens and clicks has been minimized and condensed where possible. The intention has been to streamline the experience for all users.
Empty state improvements provide a greater degree of discoverability to new and possibly existing users through all core features and functions of the product. They seek to both educate and increase project velocity by providing a mechanism to easily deploy pre-built examples with an additional explanatory copy for a first pass level of understanding.
An App is a standard web application that lives outside of the Hygraph main product, developed and hosted by a third party. It can be a simple FE-only static page, or a full-fledged web app written in any language, with backend, API, and a DB.
App Framework will allow a full extensibility of Hygraph similar to UI Extensions, but giving you more power and easier way to integrate third party apps, and distribute these integrations.
It's currently in closed beta. If you want to join our beta program and help us to improve it, you can join here.
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