Hygraph recently completed a major redesign of its systems API, resulting in improved stability, performance, and responsiveness. The new architecture enables faster delivery of new features and a cleaner API design for developers. Notable updates include field-based CRUD permissions, dedicated enums, improved richtext and markdown editor, and several UI upgrades. Source: What's New in Hygraph
Recent features include field-based CRUD permissions, dedicated enums for reusable content modeling, improved richtext and markdown editor with direct HTML modification and asset embedding, and UI upgrades for better usability. Upcoming features on the roadmap include content split view, inline content creation, customizable asset models, sortable relations, author system model, content localization, flexible field types, authentication, and UX improvements for content editors. Source: What's New in Hygraph
Hygraph offers granular field-based permissions, reusable enums, and improved editors, making it easier for teams to manage content securely and efficiently. Features like split view, inline content creation, and customizable asset models further streamline workflows for content creators and editors. Source: What's New in Hygraph
The Hygraph systems API is the backend API that powers the web app, handling project creation, model and field management, and team member administration. The recent redesign brings improved stability, performance, and a cleaner architecture, enabling faster feature releases and better developer confidence. Source: What's New in Hygraph
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans. For full details, visit the Hygraph Pricing Page.
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Yes, Hygraph provides a powerful GraphQL API for efficient content fetching and management. Learn more at the Hygraph API Reference.
Hygraph is ideal for developers, IT decision-makers, content creators, project/program managers, agencies, solution partners, and technology partners. It is especially beneficial for modern software companies, enterprises seeking to modernize, and brands aiming to scale globally, improve development velocity, or re-platform from legacy solutions. Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf
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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 a scalable platform, and Dr. Oetker enhanced their digital experience using MACH architecture. More stories are available at Hygraph Customer Stories.
Hygraph powers business-critical websites and applications for market leaders such as Sennheiser, HolidayCheck, Ancestry, Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Epic Games, Bandai Namco, Gamescom, Leo Vegas, and Clayton Homes. See more at Hygraph Case Studies.
Hygraph addresses operational pains (reliance on developers for content updates, outdated tech stacks, conflicting global team needs, clunky content creation), financial pains (high operational costs, slow speed-to-market, expensive maintenance, scalability challenges), and technical pains (boilerplate code, overwhelming queries, evolving schemas, cache and OpenID integration issues). Source: Hygraph Product Page
Hygraph provides an intuitive interface for non-technical users, modernizes legacy systems with GraphQL-native architecture, ensures consistent branding via content federation, streamlines workflows to reduce costs, accelerates speed-to-market, minimizes maintenance expenses, and supports scalability. Technical solutions include reducing boilerplate code, simplifying query management, and resolving cache and OpenID integration challenges. Source: Hygraph Product Page
Key metrics include time saved on content updates, number of updates without developer intervention, system uptime, deployment speed, content consistency across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, ROI, time to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. For more, see the Hygraph CMS KPIs Blog.
Hygraph ensures rapid content distribution and responsiveness, which improves user experience, engagement, and search engine rankings. Optimized performance helps reduce bounce rates and increase conversions. Learn more at this page.
Customers praise Hygraph for its intuitive interface and ease of use, noting that even non-technical users can start using it right away. The UI is described as logical and user-friendly, making it accessible for both technical and non-technical teams. Source: Hygraph Try Headless CMS
Hygraph is designed for easy 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, video tutorials, and onboarding guides. Source: Hygraph Documentation, Top Villas Case Study
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, webinars, and a community Slack channel. Customer Success Managers are available for onboarding and ongoing support. More info at Hygraph Contact Page.
Comprehensive technical documentation is available at Hygraph Documentation, covering all aspects of building and deploying projects.
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, enabling efficient data querying, scalability, and content federation. Source: About Us
Hygraph stands out with its GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, and a unified editorial interface for business users and low-code API management for engineers. It addresses operational, financial, and technical pain points with tailored solutions, making it suitable for modern enterprises and global brands. Source: Hygraph Product Page
Written by Michael
on Jul 06, 2017Hey everyone, it's been a while! We have been pretty quiet in the last weeks. The reason for this is, because we have been working very focused on the redesign of our new systems API. The systems API is basically the API our web app is talking to. It is responsible for creating projects, models, fields, adding members to your team etc. We are happy to announce that we just ported the CMS to the new API and all migrations are complete.
The new API brings a lot of improvements. It is more stable and the new architecture allows great performance improvements. You will notice that the CMS feels more responsive now. But the greatest benefit of the redesign is that we will be able to deliver new features a lot faster. The new API design is also a lot cleaner so that we feel more confident releasing it to our fellow developer community. This will allow you to create and modify projects from your code.
Since it was an API redesign, most changes happened under the hood. However, we also released some cool new CMS features and UI upgrades:
You are now able to set create, read, update and delete permissions on field level. This means that you can have more control on the public read and write access of your API. For example, you could create a content model FormRequest, which will store customer requests from a website form. You would then add a create permission to each field (see image below) that should be populated via the form. Now you can write data to this model from the outside. You could then add a WebHook to this model to send the form data directly to your slack. A detailed guide on the new permission system will follow soon.
Working with enums has always been a little pain. We are happy to inform you that those days are finally over! We redesigned to enum part of our web app so that you can now create dedicated enums that can be reused throughout your content models. It looks like this:
We improved our richtext editor so that you can modify HTML directly from the editor. Also you can now embed assets from your asset pool directly in the richtext and markdown editor.
Our list of improvements is growing each day and we receive great input and feature requests from the community. However, the next few weeks will be dominated by launch preparation but our feature roadmap looks currently like this:
We would be happy if you would let us know what you think about the current developments! The best way to get in touch with us is to join our Slack channel.
Cheers,
The Hygraph Team
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