GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs, providing a runtime for fulfilling queries with existing data. Hygraph leverages GraphQL to offer a GraphQL-native API, enabling efficient data management, content federation, and integration with multiple sources. Hygraph provides a GraphQL Playground for schema creation, query testing, and real-time data access. Learn more.
Hygraph supports a wide range of field types in its schema builder, including String (single-line, multi-line, markdown, slug), Rich Text (raw, html, markdown, text), Integer, Float, Boolean, Date (ISO 8601), DateTime, JSON, Asset (any file type), Color (HEX, RGBA, CSS), Location (latitude, longitude, distance), Enumeration (enums), Reference (simple and union), and Remote fields for external data. See all field types.
Hygraph automatically generates queries for fetching single and multiple entries for each content type. It supports advanced querying features such as filtering, ordering, pagination, localization, content stages, and versioning. The mutations API allows you to create, update, batch update, insert, delete, and upsert entries using GraphQL. Learn more about mutations.
Key advantages include precise data fetching (no over- or under-fetching), strong schema and type safety, and content federation (combining multiple APIs into a single schema). Hygraph's GraphQL API enables rapid setup, efficient querying, and seamless integration with modern development workflows. See the GraphQL API cheatsheet.
You can access the GraphQL API cheatsheet directly at this page. Additional resources, including documentation, tutorials, and the Resource Hub, are available at Hygraph Documentation.
Yes, Hygraph offers comprehensive technical documentation covering API reference, schema field types, queries, mutations, integrations, and more. Visit Hygraph Documentation for details.
Hygraph provides a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, and a no-code schema builder. Key features include rapid content delivery, flexible localization, digital asset management, personalization, AI integrations, and robust security. For a full list, visit Hygraph Features.
Hygraph integrates with platforms such as Netlify, Vercel (hosting/deployment), BigCommerce, commercetools, Shopify (eCommerce), Lokalise, Crowdin, EasyTranslate, Smartling (localization), Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot (digital asset management), Ninetailed (personalization/AB testing), AltText.ai (AI), Adminix, and Plasmic. See all integrations.
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 to protect sensitive data and meet regulatory standards. Learn more about security features.
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans. For details and feature breakdowns, visit the Hygraph Pricing Page.
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, improve development velocity, or re-platform from legacy solutions. Learn more about Hygraph's mission.
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. See all case studies.
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. Explore more success stories.
Notable customers include Sennheiser, HolidayCheck, Ancestry, Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Epic Games, Bandai Namco, Gamescom, Leo Vegas, and Clayton Homes. See customer 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 problems, OpenID integration challenges). Learn more about solutions.
For developers: Hygraph reduces boilerplate code and streamlines query management. For content creators/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. See persona-specific solutions.
KPIs include time saved on content updates, number of updates without developer intervention, system uptime, speed of deployment, consistency across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, ROI, time to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. Read more about CMS KPIs.
Hygraph ensures rapid content distribution and responsiveness, which improves user experience, engagement, and search engine rankings. Optimized delivery reduces bounce rates and increases conversions. Learn more about performance.
Hygraph is designed for quick onboarding, even for non-technical users. You can sign up for a free account and access documentation, tutorials, and onboarding guides. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months. Get started with Hygraph.
Customers praise Hygraph for its intuitive interface and ease of setup. Feedback includes comments like "super easy to set up and use" and "even non-technical users can start using it right away." The UI is described as logical and user-friendly. Read more customer feedback.
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. Contact Hygraph support.
Customers can expect time savings, streamlined workflows, faster speed-to-market, improved customer experience, and operational efficiency. Hygraph helps modernize tech stacks and supports scalable digital experiences. See business impact details.
You can sign up for a free-forever account at app.hygraph.com. Resources such as documentation, video tutorials, and onboarding guides are available to help you get started. Access Hygraph Documentation.
Hygraph provides a GraphQL Cheatsheet at this page, as well as documentation, Academy, and Resource Hub for developers. Explore developer resources.
Get started with building your own production ready GraphQL API within minutes using Hygraph. Here’s a cheatsheet to bring you up to speed!
GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs, and a runtime for fulfilling queries with existing data. Maintained and developed primarily via the GraphQL Foundation, GraphQL has had incredible adoption across a variety of verticals and use cases with organizations like Twitter, Facebook, Expedia, Shopify, and Hygraph to name a few.
Data Fetching: GraphQL gives you exactly what you ask for. No over or under fetching.
Schema & Type Safety: GraphQL uses a strongly typed system to define the capabilities of an API.
Content Federation: GraphQL can combine multiple APIs into a single schema to make it accessible to the client.
Embrace a low-code API management layer approach to unify your microservices and operations, and focus on growing your business model rather than maintaining it.
A string is just a simple string field. Hygraph supports single-line text, multi-line text, markdown and slug, as string variants.
The Rich Text field is an advanced string field that returns your content in raw, html, markdown and text.
Integers are whole numbers, and are often used to reference price in cents, stock quantities etc.
Floating point numbers represent fractional values with precision, such as distance, weight, volume, etc.
Booleans are used for entries that should have a true or false value.
The Date field type adheres to ISO 8601 standard. This means, October 7, 1989 is represented as 1989-10-07.
he DateTime field type also adheres to ISO 8601 standard, allowing you to set specific times on dates.
Often used for storing large amounts of data, this field could be seen as an “escape hatch” that could lose you some GraphQL benefits.
Assets are connected to models through a reference field. Assets can be any file type, not just images.
The Color field stores values that can be retrieved in several formats like HEX, RGBA, and CSS color values.
The Location field type returns latitude, longitude, and distance Float values.
Enums are a predefined list of values inside your GraphQL schema, and can be referenced by any content models.
Relations allow you to connect multiple models. In Hygraph they come as one-way or two-way references.
GraphQL Union Types (or Polymorphic Relations) allow you to define a list of possible relations, and decide which one to use.
Remote fields allow you to programmatically bring external data into your graph, without copying them into the CMS.
Hygraph automatically generates queries for fetching single, and multiple entries for each defined content type belonging to your project.
The post query is what you would use to fetch a single entry from the CMS.
{post(where: { id: "..." }) {idtitle}}
The posts query is what you would use to fetch multiple entries from the CMS.
{posts {id}}
Imagine posts have a one to many relation with comments. With GraphQL you can query the related comments in the same request.
{posts {idcomments {idauthor}}}
When fetching one or more entries, you can also fetch the localized entries. The default locale is set to en.
{post(where: { id: "..." }, locales: [en, fr, de]) {title}posts(locales: [en, fr, de]) {title}}
When fetching entries, you can also specify the content stage. The default content stage is set to DRAFT.
{post(where: { id: "..." }, stage: PUBLISHED) {title}posts(stage: PUBLISHED) {title}}
You can fetch all data of a specific entry at a point in time using the automatically generated version query.
{postVersion(where: { id: "abc123", revision: 1, stage: PUBLISHED }) {idrevisiondata}}
It is also possible to pass multiple arguments at a time. Let’s get the first 3 published posts by time, where the title contains "Hygraph".
{posts(where: { title_contains: "Hygraph" }orderBy: createdAt_DESCfirst: 3stage: PUBLISHED) {id}}
Multiple queries can be executed in parallel via a single request to your endpoint. Let's fetch our a single, and multiple posts in one request.
{post(where: { id: "..." }) {idtitle}posts {idtitle}}
We support both the @skip and @include directives for use in your schema.
query ($includeAuthor: Boolean!) {posts {idtitleauthor @include(if: $includeAuthor) {name}}}
It's recommended you use GraphQL variables when working with queries that use any variable data values.
query GetPostBySlug($slug: String!) {post(where: { id: $id }) {idtitle}}
Your project endpoint exposes GraphQL mutations. The mutations API allows you to interact with content ouside of Hygraph using GraphQL.
When creating new content entries, the data argument will have an associated input type that is specific to your content model.
mutation {createProduct(data: {name: "Face Mask",slug: "face-mask",price: 1000 }) {idnameslugprice}}
When updating single content entry, you must specify the unique where criteria of which you want to update, as well as the new data.
mutation {updateProduct(where: { id: "ckgcd5hzc01wd0a446vd3kqrs" }data: { price: 100 }) {idnameprice}}
Hygraph supports batch mutations that can be applied to "many" entries at once. They comply with Relay connection type specification.
mutation {updateManyProductsConnection(where: { featured: true }data: { featured: false }) {edges {node {featured}}}}
When inserting related entries, you can connect entries at a given position. The position of entries reflects that fetching relations.
mutation {updateAuthor(where: { id: "..." }data: { posts: { connect: { position: { before: "..." } } } }) {id}}
Similar to updating, and upserting entries, you can specify using where the entries you want to delete.
mutation {deleteProduct(where: { id: "..." }) {idnameslugprice}}
The upsert mutation allows you to create, or update a content entry based on whether the unique where values exist.
mutation {upsertProduct(where: { slug: "face-mask" }upsert: {create: { name: "Face Mask", slug: "face-mask", price: 1000 }update: { name: "Face Mask", slug: "face-mask", price: 1000 }}) {idnameslugprice}}
Hygraph creates filters for types you add to models. These filters can be applied to single or multiple entries, and nested object fields.
When fetching multiple entries you can use the orderBy argument to define the order of the returned records.
Hygraph supports various arguments for paginating content entries such as first, last, skip, before, and after.
You can create your own content stages inside the Hygraph UI, and query content from these stages, as well as publish to.
Hygraph boasts a flexible localization API that you can use to publish content for all or specific locales in your project.
The Asset model can be modified with custom Field Types, and are localized by default, but cannot be deleted.