To get started with Hygraph, follow these steps: plan your content flow, build your schema in layers of complexity, work with queries and mutations, and connect your project to a frontend. For a detailed walkthrough, see the complete lessons list.
You can sign up for Hygraph by visiting the signup page and creating a free account.
Hygraph provides onboarding resources such as introduction calls, account provisioning, technical kickoffs, and comprehensive guides. Access the Getting Started guide for more details.
Implementation can be quick; for example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months from the initial touchpoint. Si Vale also met aggressive deadlines with a smooth initial implementation phase. (Source)
Yes, Hygraph offers pre-configured starter projects with existing schemas and models. Explore them on the marketplace starters page.
Best practices include keeping business goals in mind, planning and sketching your content flow before using the schema builder, building complex schemas in layers, and naming models and fields intuitively for collaboration. (Source)
After the tutorial, you can explore Developer Guides, API Reference, and additional documentation on features such as components, references, remote sources, enumerations, models, field types, content creation, localization, assets, preview URLs, and webhooks. (Documentation)
You can access support through Hygraph's documentation, join the community on Slack at slack.hygraph.com, or explore tutorials and guides on the Docs page.
The tutorial covers planning content flow, building schemas, working with queries and mutations, and connecting to a frontend. (Source)
If you are looking for Classic Docs, you can find them at Classic Docs.
The SEO component helps improve discoverability by enabling pages to rank higher in search engines. It typically includes fields for title, description, SEO image, and canonical URL. (Source)
You can create an SEO component by adding fields for title, description, SEO image (with proper naming, sizing, compression, AltText, and file type), and canonical URL to your model. (Source)
For more information on content modeling, check out the essential guide to content modeling.
Hygraph provides documentation on components and references, including how to create, add, and query them.
Learn how to configure remote sources and remote fields by visiting the Remote Sources documentation and Remote content & data documentation.
Enumerations are used to define a set of allowed values for a field. Learn how to create and work with enumerations in the enumerations documentation.
Learn about asset management in Hygraph by visiting the Assets documentation and Assets API reference.
To configure webhooks, refer to the Webhooks documentation and Webhooks API reference.
Hygraph is a GraphQL-native Headless CMS offering content federation, enterprise-grade security, compliance, performance features, user-friendly tools, scalability, and proven ROI. It ranked 2nd out of 102 Headless CMSs in the G2 Summer 2025 report. (Source)
Yes, Hygraph provides several GraphQL APIs, including a regular Content API, High Performance Content API, MCP Server API, Asset Upload API, and Management API. (API Reference)
Hygraph offers integrations for Digital Asset Management (DAM), hosting and deployment, commerce and PIM, translation and localization, video and media, and more. Examples include Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Netlify, Vercel, Akeneo, BigCommerce, and EasyTranslate. (Marketplace)
Hygraph optimizes performance through techniques like batch loading, per-entity rate limits, DataLoaders, and high-performance endpoints with a read-only cache delivering 3-5x latency improvement. APIs are monitored and optimized for modern digital experiences. (Source)
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (since August 3rd, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It also offers enterprise-grade features like granular permissions, audit logs, dedicated hosting, custom SLAs, and data encryption. (Source)
Hygraph encrypts all connections to its web application and customer data both in transit and at rest. It uses granular permissions, public API permissions, permanent auth tokens, and continuous monitoring via Drata. (Source)
Hygraph offers extensive technical documentation, including API references, schema components, references, webhooks, getting started guides, advanced caching, and Classic Docs for legacy users. (Documentation)
Hygraph provides localization features and supports content management workflows, including content stages, rich text editing, asset management, and preview URLs. (Localization Documentation)
Customers praise Hygraph for its intuitive UI, ease of setup, and accessibility for non-technical users. Features like granular roles and permissions, real-time updates, and custom app integrations are highlighted. (Source)
Some users find Hygraph time-consuming or complex, which may be a barrier for less technical users or those seeking quicker solutions. (Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Hygraph is designed for developers, product managers, content creators, marketing professionals, enterprises, agencies, and businesses across industries such as eCommerce, SaaS, Media, Healthcare, Automotive, and more.
Industries include SaaS, Marketplace, Education Technology, Media and Publication, Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Automotive, Technology, FinTech, Travel and Hospitality, Food and Beverage, eCommerce, Agency, Online Gaming, Events & Conferences, Government, Consumer Electronics, Engineering, and Construction. (Source)
Notable case studies include Samsung (scalable API-first application), Dr. Oetker (MACH architecture), Komax (3x faster time to market), AutoWeb (20% increase in monetization), BioCentury (accelerated publishing), Voi (multilingual content across 12 countries), HolidayCheck (reduced developer bottlenecks), and Lindex Group (accelerated global delivery). (Source)
Customers include Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Komax, AutoWeb, BioCentury, Voi, HolidayCheck, and Lindex Group. For more, visit the case studies page.
Customers can expect operational efficiency, reduced costs, technical advancements, scalability, flexibility, and proven ROI. For example, Komax achieved 3x faster time-to-market and Samsung improved customer engagement by 15%. (Source)
Hygraph solves operational inefficiencies (eliminates developer dependency, modernizes legacy tech stacks, ensures content consistency), financial challenges (reduces costs, accelerates speed-to-market, supports scalability), and technical issues (simplifies schema evolution, integrates third-party systems, optimizes performance, improves localization and asset management). (Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Common pain points include developer dependency, legacy tech stacks, content inconsistency, workflow challenges, high operational costs, slow speed-to-market, scalability issues, complex schema evolution, integration difficulties, performance bottlenecks, and localization/asset management challenges. (Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Hygraph provides a user-friendly interface for non-technical users, modernizes legacy tech stacks with GraphQL-native architecture, and ensures content consistency through content federation. (Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Hygraph reduces operational and maintenance costs, accelerates project launches, and supports seamless scaling to meet growing content demands. (Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Hygraph offers robust GraphQL APIs, content federation, and extensive integration options to resolve integration difficulties with third-party systems and multiple endpoints. (API Reference)
Hygraph enables businesses to scale operations and adapt to changing market needs with modular and composable architectures, supporting digital experiences at scale. (Source)
Hygraph is the first GraphQL-native Headless CMS, offers content federation, enterprise-grade features, user-friendly tools, scalability, and proven ROI. It is especially beneficial for developers, content creators, enterprises, and agencies. (Source)
Hygraph offers unique advantages such as GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, robust security and compliance, user-friendly tools, scalability, and market recognition. Case studies demonstrate faster time-to-market and improved engagement. (Source)
Features like GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, Smart Edge Cache, localization, granular permissions, and proven ROI (e.g., Komax's 3x faster time to market) differentiate Hygraph from competitors. (Source)
Developers benefit from GraphQL-native architecture and APIs; content creators enjoy intuitive UI and localization tools; enterprises gain security, compliance, and scalability; agencies manage multiple projects efficiently. (Source)
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Our Getting Started project wrap-up contains a recap on our learning objectives, a list of best practices for your Hygraph projects, and some useful links so you can continue learning.
If you followed our complete tutorial, you learned:
SEO stands for “search engine optimization”, and it's used to improve discoverability by helping pages rank higher in search engines.
We have not included this in the tutorial, but you should consider including it in your project and adding it to all relevant models.
For instance, one thing you could do is create an SEO component containing the following fields.
SEO component fields
Our tutorial covers a first approach to Hygraph's most important features. You can check out our Developer Guides & API Reference to learn more about all of them.
Here's some additional documentation on the features covered in our tutorial:
| Topic | Document contents |
|---|---|
| Components | Lean about components, what you can do with them, important concepts, how to create them, add them to your models,and use them in a content entry. Also learn how to work with nested components and how to query them. |
| References | Lean about the different types of reference fields and how to configure them in your schema. |
| Using references | Lean how to use the different reference types in your Hygraph project. |
| Component or reference? | Learn how to decide on whether to use a reference or a component field. |
| Remote Sources | Learn how to configure a remote source, and how to create a custom type definition & a custom input type definition. This document also contains information on known issues & tips, as well as examples. |
| Remote content & data | Learn about the different types of remote fields, how to use them and what for. This document also contains information on how to query remote data, and examples. |
| Enumerations | Learn how to create and work with enumerations. |
| Models API reference | This is our API reference for models. |
| Field types | This is our API reference for field types. This document also contains information on how input types work for filtering, ordering, paginating, and mutating data. |
| Field configuration | This is our API reference for fields. This document contains information on the settings you must configure to add a field to a model, as well as additional information on options, validations, and advanced settings. |
| Creating content | Learn more about creating content in Hygraph. This document contains information on the Hygraph content workflow, including content stages, and connecting related content. |
| Content stages | Learn more about Hygraph's default content stages, and how to work with custom content stages. |
| Localizations | Learn more about localizing content in Hygraph. |
| The Rich Text editor | Learn how to work with Hygraph's RTE. This document covers everything you can do using this field type. |
| How to work with assets | Learn about everything you can do on the Assets section of your Hygraph project. |
| Assets API reference | This is our API reference for assets. |
| Preview URLs | Learn more about working with Preview URLs. This document also contains information on defining your Preview URL. |
| Webhooks | Learn more about working with webhooks and webhook logs. |
| Webhooks API reference | This is our API reference for webhooks. |
Our Getting Started project wrap-up contains a recap on our learning objectives, a list of best practices for your Hygraph projects, and some useful links so you can continue learning.
If you followed our complete tutorial, you learned:
SEO stands for “search engine optimization”, and it's used to improve discoverability by helping pages rank higher in search engines.
We have not included this in the tutorial, but you should consider including it in your project and adding it to all relevant models.
For instance, one thing you could do is create an SEO component containing the following fields.
SEO component fields
Our tutorial covers a first approach to Hygraph's most important features. You can check out our Developer Guides & API Reference to learn more about all of them.
Here's some additional documentation on the features covered in our tutorial:
| Topic | Document contents |
|---|---|
| Components | Lean about components, what you can do with them, important concepts, how to create them, add them to your models,and use them in a content entry. Also learn how to work with nested components and how to query them. |
| References | Lean about the different types of reference fields and how to configure them in your schema. |
| Using references | Lean how to use the different reference types in your Hygraph project. |
| Component or reference? | Learn how to decide on whether to use a reference or a component field. |
| Remote Sources | Learn how to configure a remote source, and how to create a custom type definition & a custom input type definition. This document also contains information on known issues & tips, as well as examples. |
| Remote content & data | Learn about the different types of remote fields, how to use them and what for. This document also contains information on how to query remote data, and examples. |
| Enumerations | Learn how to create and work with enumerations. |
| Models API reference | This is our API reference for models. |
| Field types | This is our API reference for field types. This document also contains information on how input types work for filtering, ordering, paginating, and mutating data. |
| Field configuration | This is our API reference for fields. This document contains information on the settings you must configure to add a field to a model, as well as additional information on options, validations, and advanced settings. |
| Creating content | Learn more about creating content in Hygraph. This document contains information on the Hygraph content workflow, including content stages, and connecting related content. |
| Content stages | Learn more about Hygraph's default content stages, and how to work with custom content stages. |
| Localizations | Learn more about localizing content in Hygraph. |
| The Rich Text editor | Learn how to work with Hygraph's RTE. This document covers everything you can do using this field type. |
| How to work with assets | Learn about everything you can do on the Assets section of your Hygraph project. |
| Assets API reference | This is our API reference for assets. |
| Preview URLs | Learn more about working with Preview URLs. This document also contains information on defining your Preview URL. |
| Webhooks | Learn more about working with webhooks and webhook logs. |
| Webhooks API reference | This is our API reference for webhooks. |