What new features were introduced in the November 2022 Hygraph product update?
The November 2022 update introduced several key features:
Shopify App Integration: Seamlessly link products from Shopify into Hygraph projects, with automatic syncing of product data and content. Learn more.
High-Performance Read-Only Cache: A new cache endpoint delivers 3-5x latency improvement for read-only API queries, optimizing global content delivery. Read documentation.
New Management SDK: The updated SDK supports nested components and ensures new features are automatically available. The previous SDK is deprecated but remains available for legacy scripts. Migration guide.
Non-Intrusive In-App Surveys: Users can now provide feedback directly in the app, helping shape future product development.
How does the new Shopify integration work in Hygraph?
The Shopify integration allows you to link products from Shopify directly into your Hygraph projects. Product IDs are automatically synced, and you can fetch related data (such as product type) using remote sources. Any changes made in Shopify are reflected in Hygraph and your front-end, streamlining product management for both developers and marketers. Explore the Shopify Integration.
What are the benefits of the new high-performance cache endpoint?
The new cache endpoint delivers 3-5x latency improvement for read-only API queries, ensuring rapid content delivery for high-traffic digital experiences. Hygraph manages all cache operations, and future enhancements like partial invalidations are planned to further optimize performance. Read more.
What improvements were made to field validation and remote fields?
Hygraph now supports validation with non-Latin (unicode) characters in slugs and string fields, and allows existing field variables in non-string arguments for remote fields using the {{!cast=<type>}} syntax. Learn more.
How can users provide feedback on Hygraph features?
Users can provide feedback directly in the Hygraph application via the Help section or through in-app surveys. Occasionally, a pulsating beacon highlights new features, inviting users to share their opinions. This feedback helps shape future product development.
What is the new commenting feature in Hygraph?
The new commenting feature allows team members to share and document feedback on content entries, assign comments to users, and receive notifications. This feature, currently in closed beta, aims to enhance collaboration and project management within Hygraph. Contact Hygraph to join the beta.
How can developers extend Hygraph's functionality?
Developers can use the new React App SDK to build custom apps for Hygraph or contribute apps to the Hygraph marketplace. The app framework will be available to all users soon, with early access available via contacting Hygraph.
Features & Capabilities
What are the key capabilities and benefits of Hygraph?
Hygraph offers a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, and scalability. Benefits include faster speed-to-market, control at scale, lower total cost of ownership, and optimized content delivery performance. For more, visit Hygraph Features.
What integrations does Hygraph support?
Hygraph supports integrations with platforms such as 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.
Does Hygraph provide an API?
Yes, Hygraph offers a powerful GraphQL API for efficient content fetching and management. API Reference.
Where can I find technical documentation for Hygraph?
Comprehensive technical documentation is available at Hygraph Documentation, covering setup, integrations, API usage, and more.
Pricing & Plans
What is Hygraph's pricing model?
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans. For details, visit the pricing page.
Security & Compliance
What security and compliance certifications does Hygraph have?
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It offers SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, and sandbox environments. Security Features.
Use Cases & Customer Success
Who can benefit from using Hygraph?
Hygraph is ideal for developers, IT decision-makers, content creators, project 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. See case studies.
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 case studies.
Can you share specific customer success stories with Hygraph?
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. See more success stories.
How long does it take to implement Hygraph?
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 with a free account and onboarding resources. Documentation.
What business impact can customers expect from using Hygraph?
Customers can expect time savings, ease of use, faster speed-to-market, and enhanced customer experience through scalable content delivery. These benefits help modernize tech stacks and improve operational efficiency. Learn more.
Pain Points & Solutions
What problems does Hygraph solve?
Hygraph addresses operational pains (developer reliance, 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, query management, schema evolution, cache and OpenID integration issues). See details.
How does Hygraph solve pain points for different personas?
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, it lowers operational costs and supports scalability. Learn more.
What KPIs and metrics are associated with the pain points Hygraph solves?
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. Read more about CMS KPIs.
Support & Implementation
What support is available to Hygraph customers?
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, and a community Slack channel. Contact Hygraph.
What training and technical support does Hygraph provide for onboarding?
Hygraph provides onboarding sessions for enterprise customers, training resources such as video tutorials, documentation, webinars, and access to Customer Success Managers for expert guidance. Learn more.
How does Hygraph handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?
Hygraph offers 24/7 support for maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and guidance, while all users can access documentation and the community Slack channel for additional help. Support details.
Company & Community
What is Hygraph's overarching 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. About Hygraph.
How can I join the Hygraph community?
You can join the Hygraph community via Slack to stay updated on announcements, events, and feature rollouts. Join Community Slack.
Getting Started
How easy is it to get started with Hygraph?
Getting started is simple: sign up for a free-forever account at Hygraph. Resources like documentation, video tutorials, and onboarding guides are available to help you navigate the platform.
With this update, we are pleased to share the launch of our Shopify app, along with our new high-performance cache, new management SDK and also give a sneak peek on what's coming next.
A platform that empowers millions of businesses worldwide, you've probably heard of Shopify. Definitely, a must-have integration, and one that has been requested quite often.
You can now bring your Shopify products into Hygraph projects along with the rest of your content. No need to add product IDs manually. Simple!
Hold on! It doesn't end there.
As a federated content platform, Hygraph opens up a range of possibilities that any other CMS won't offer." said Michael, CEO at Hygraph. "Shopify is a great example of how we help unify data from backend systems.
Once a product is added to Hygraph, with our remote sources feature, you can use the unique product ID to fetch other related data from Shopify (such as productType).
The Benefits
As a developer, the process is now simpler. The product picker allows you to seamlessly link product IDs. Combining this with remote fields, you can fetch product fields from the Shopify API and content data from Hygraph in a single call.
As a marketer, you can list up-to-date relevant information for your audience, right next to your products. Since it's linked, any changes made in Shopify are automatically reflected in Hygraph and your front-end.
Our existing caching solution works great for all kinds of read-write operations. But, we saw a need for even higher performance on high-volume read-only operations.
Now, if you go to the API access settings, you'll get the option to choose between the previous CDN endpoint or the new high performance read-only cache.
Hygraph helps power large scale digital experiences; with volumes of traffic, high number of API requests to be processed, and more frequent changes in content.
3 words;
Performance. Performance. Performance!
When serving content on a global scale, you're looking for absolute minimal latency. The new endpoint offers 3-5x latency improvement over the previous one.
That's not all. The new cache also opens up a window of new opportunities.
Just a teaser; we are working on partial invalidations, where rather than invalidating the entire cache on content changes, it will instead be invalidated on a more fine-grained basis.
Cherry on top: Hygraph handles all cache management for you!
We prioritize performance" - Michael. "And the new cache is just the start of something big. Stay tuned and expect more edge caching features soon.
New Management SDK
Recap: you can use our Management SDK to execute operations without using the UI. It also helps you manage schema changes in code and under version control.
This allows teams of developers to work together more efficiently and reduces risks of schema conflicts.
We have just released a new version of this Management SDK. The old SDK has been deprecated but won't be removed from NPM, so old scripts using it will still work in the future. New features, though, will only be available in the new SDK.
While we are on the topic of using your feedback, here's a little proof of how we translated all of that into smaller improvements:
You now have the option to use validation with non-Latin (unicode) characters in slugs and other string fields. More details can be found in the documentation.
For remote fields, In order to support existing field variables in non-string arguments, the {{!cast=<type>}} syntax can be used to indicate the type resulting data should be forwarded in.
You probably have multiple people working together on a single content entry. Sharing a lot of feedback along its lifecycle.
Our new commenting feature makes it easier to share and document this feedback.
Not only that, you can also assign comments to users and notify them. This is part of our aim to introduce more project management features in the future, and enable seamless collaboration for your teams.
The commenting feature has just been launched as a "closed beta".
We are almost there. Keep an eye out and it will soon be available for all.
Nevertheless, you could also try out the feature in beta by contacting us here.
App Framework
See those great apps on our marketplace? You no longer need to be limited by the options out there.
Let's get creative!
With our new React App SDK, you can extend Hygraph's functionality by building your own apps, or possibly contribute by having your app listed on our marketplace.
Bear with us. Our app framework will be available for all before the end of the year.
Too excited? You can always get in touch and access our beta version early on.
Side note: if you represent an IT vendor, and would like to join our ecosystem and have your app listed, please feel free to contact us.
Bryan Robinson recently joined Hygraph as our new Head of Developer Relations. He is a designer, developer, teacher, and community advocate. He has run a bunch of community hackathons, meetups and conferences for over half of his professional career. He has a passion for educating developers and designers about topics such as CSS and the Jamstack.
Want to know when features roll out in real time to test, provide feedback and direction for Hygraph? Join our community through slack to stay up-to-date on all Hygraph announcements, events, and all the growing ways to get involved with Hygraph and our team.
Shahan is the Product Marketing Manager at Hygraph. Living in Pakistan, he loves to spend time exploring places, pencil sketching, reading, and watching science fiction and K-dramas.
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