About Hygraph

Hygraph is the GraphQL native headless CMS that offers Content Federation. As a frontend and backend agnostic API-first solution, Hygraph enables over 50,000 teams around the world to create, enrich, and deliver content programmatically.

Navigating the CMSAnchor

Once you're logged in you'll see a list of all projects you have access to. Clicking on a project will take you to the projects dashboard.

You can navigate between the different sections of the project using the sidebar. These areas are:

UI Section	What you can do
1. Overview	Home screen with a start guide and links to support, documentation and examples.
2. Schema Editor	Setup of the content models as required by your project.
3. Content Editor	Access existing content, create custom content views, create/ edit content, review content, and publish content.
4. Digital Asset Manager	Tab to manage and upload your assets.
5. API Playground	An API playground where you can test out API calls.
6. Notifications	A section to manage your notifications.
7. Apps	A section to manage apps.
8. Webhooks	A section to manage webhooks.
9. Project Settings	Details about project information, API access, billing, environments, locales and members
10. Help	Documentation on concepts, code examples, reference apps, features etc.
11. Contact support	Hygraph Public Slack Channel
12. User Settings	Logout and User Configuration

Section contentsAnchor

This section offers a contents map to help you readily find what you're looking for.

Getting startedAnchor

Document	Contents
Create a project	Step 1 of our quickstart. Contains step by step information on how to create a project.
Create a model	Step 2 of our quickstart. Contains step by step information on how to create a model in your project schema.
Add fields	Step 3 of our quickstart. Contains step by step information on how to add fields to a model.
Create content	Step 4 of our quickstart. Contains step by step information on how to create a content entry in our content editor.
Publish content	Step 5 of our quickstart. Contains step by step information on how to publish content.
Query content	Step 6 of our quickstart. Contains step by step information on how to query content in our API Playground using GraphQL.
Mutating content	Step 7 of our quickstart. Contains step by step information on how to mutate content in our API Playground using GraphQL.
Enable API access	Step 8 of our quickstart. Contains step by step information on how to configure and manage external API access to your content API endpoint.

App walkthroughAnchor

Document	Contents
Schema editor	Contains information about the schema editor and how to set up content models in your project.
Content editor	Contains information on accessing existing content, creating custom content views, creating/editing/reviewing and publishing content.
Assets	Contains information about how to manage and upload your assets.
API Playground	Contains information about Hygraph's API Playground, which you can use to test out API calls, by experimenting with querying and mutating data.
Notifications	Contains information about Hygraph's notifications feature, which informs you of comments assigned or related to you in content entries.
Apps	Contains information about our Apps section, where you can manage Hygraph integrations with other apps. You can configure or uninstall apps from your project from this section.
Webhooks	Contains information about how to add webhooks to your project's deployment according to triggers you can configure.
Project settings	Contains information about your project's global information, and about managing its settings.

FundamentalsAnchor

Document	Contents
Content modeling	Contains information about the basics of content modeling with Hygraph, and why it is important for all projects.
Migrating to Hygraph	Contains information about the process of migrating to Hygraph.
Glossary	Contains lists of useful Hygraph related concepts and terms.