Frequently Asked Questions

Product Information & Svelte Integration

What is Hygraph and how does it work with Svelte?

Hygraph is a GraphQL-native Headless CMS that enables you to manage and deliver content for Svelte websites and applications. You can fetch content from Hygraph using Svelte's onMount lifecycle and display it with reactive loops like {#each}. Hygraph's API-first approach allows you to add components to your Svelte apps in minutes and manage content from a powerful CMS. Source

How do I fetch and display content from Hygraph in a Svelte app?

You can use Svelte's onMount lifecycle function to fetch data from Hygraph's GraphQL endpoint. The fetch method sends a POST request with your query, and the returned data can be stored in a local array and displayed using Svelte's {#each} loop. This enables dynamic rendering of content such as product lists, descriptions, images, and availability. Source

What frameworks can I use with Hygraph?

Hygraph supports integration with popular frameworks including Astro, NextJS, NuxtJS, and SvelteKit. This flexibility allows you to use Hygraph as a headless CMS for a wide range of modern web projects. Source

What is SvelteKit and how does it relate to Hygraph?

SvelteKit is a web application framework built on the Svelte JavaScript compiler, streamlining the development of high-performance web applications. Hygraph can be used as a headless CMS for SvelteKit projects, providing fast, flexible content management via its GraphQL API. Source

Features & Capabilities

What are the key features of Hygraph for Svelte projects?

Hygraph offers a GraphQL-native architecture, a flexible management API, blazing fast content API, Smart Edge Cache for performance, content federation, custom roles, rich text formatting, and project backups. It is designed to be modular, flexible, and supports multiplatform content management. Source

How does Hygraph ensure high performance for content delivery?

Hygraph uses Smart Edge Cache to accelerate content delivery and has made significant improvements to its high-performance endpoints. The platform also provides practical advice for developers to optimize GraphQL API usage, ensuring reliability and speed for global audiences. Source

What security and compliance certifications does Hygraph have?

Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (since August 3rd, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It offers granular permissions, SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, regular backups, and supports enterprise-grade compliance requirements. Source

How does Hygraph handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?

Hygraph is a cloud-based platform that handles all deployment, updates, security, and infrastructure maintenance. Upgrades are seamlessly integrated, and troubleshooting is supported via 24/7 chat, email, phone, Intercom chat, extensive documentation, and a community Slack channel. Enterprise customers receive a dedicated Customer Success Manager. Source

Ease of Use & Onboarding

How easy is it to get started with Hygraph for Svelte projects?

Hygraph offers a free API playground, a free forever developer account, and a structured onboarding process including introduction calls, account provisioning, business and technical kickoffs, and content schema guidance. Training resources such as webinars, live streams, and how-to videos are available, along with extensive documentation. Source

What feedback have customers given about Hygraph's ease of use?

Customers praise Hygraph's intuitive editor UI, accessibility for non-technical users, and ease of setup. Hygraph was recognized for "Best Usability" in Summer 2023, and users appreciate custom app integration for content quality checks and instant feedback. Source

How long does it take to implement Hygraph?

Implementation time varies by project scope. For example, Top Villas launched a new project within 2 months from initial contact, and Si Vale met aggressive deadlines during their initial implementation. Hygraph's onboarding and training resources help accelerate adoption. Source

Use Cases & Benefits

Who can benefit from using Hygraph with Svelte?

Hygraph is ideal for developers, product managers, and marketing teams in industries such as ecommerce, automotive, technology, food and beverage, and manufacturing. It suits organizations modernizing legacy tech stacks, global enterprises needing localization, asset management, and content federation, and teams aiming for exceptional digital experiences. Source

What problems does Hygraph solve for Svelte projects?

Hygraph addresses operational inefficiencies (reducing developer dependency, modernizing legacy stacks), financial challenges (lowering costs, accelerating speed-to-market, supporting scalability), and technical issues (simplifying schema evolution, integrating third-party systems, optimizing performance, improving localization and asset management). Source

Can you share some customer success stories with Hygraph?

Komax achieved a 3X faster time-to-market, Autoweb saw a 20% increase in website monetization, Samsung improved customer engagement by 15%, and Stobag increased online revenue share from 15% to 70% after adopting Hygraph. More stories are available at Hygraph Customer Stories.

Support & Implementation

What support and training does Hygraph offer?

Hygraph provides 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone, real-time troubleshooting through Intercom chat, a community Slack channel, extensive documentation, webinars, live streams, how-to videos, and a dedicated Customer Success Manager for enterprise customers. Source

Technical Requirements

What are the technical requirements for using Hygraph with Svelte?

You need access to Hygraph's GraphQL API endpoint and a Svelte project. Hygraph provides detailed documentation and example projects to help you set up and integrate the CMS with your Svelte app. Source

KPIs & Metrics

What KPIs and metrics are associated with Hygraph's solutions?

Key metrics include time saved on content updates, number of updates made without developer intervention, system uptime, speed of deployment, content consistency across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, ROI on CMS investment, time to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. More details are available in the CMS KPIs blog.

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Headless CMS for Svelte

Hygraph is the ideal Headless CMS for Svelte websites and applications. Read further to learn how our API-first CMS allows you to add components to your Svelte apps in minutes and enable your website's content to be managed from a powerful CMS.

Step #1 - Fetching the content from the headless CMS

You can use Svelte's onMount lifecycle function to ensure the data fetching occurs after the component has mounted. The fetch method is used to make a POST request to the GraphQL endpoint, sending a query that requests fields like name, description, image, availability, and slug for products.

The request includes headers for content type and authorization for Hygraph's Content API. Once the data is received and converted to JSON, it's stored in a local products array for use in the Svelte component.

import { onMount } from 'svelte';
let products = [];
onMount(async () => {
const response = await fetch('https://api-<region>.hygraph.com/v2/<some hash>/master', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_HYGRAPH_TOKEN' // Add this if your API requires authorization
},
body: JSON.stringify({
query: `
query {
products {
name
description
image
availability
slug
}
}
`
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
products = data.data.products;
});

Step #2 - Displaying the fetched data in Svelte

To display the product list you can use Svelte's reactive {#each} loop to iterate over each product in the products array. For each product, the code generates HTML elements displaying the product's name, description, image, and availability.

A link to a product-specific page is also created using the product's slug. This approach allows dynamic rendering of the fetched data in a structured, user-friendly format on the web page.

<script>
// ... (the fetch code from the Step #1)
</script>
<article>
{#each products as product}
<div>
<h2>{product.name}</h2>
<p>{product.description}</p>
<img src={product.image} alt={product.name} />
<p>Availability: {product.availability}</p>
<a href={`/products/${product.slug}`}>View Product</a>
</div>
{/each}
</article>

Start building with Svelte and Hygraph

We made it really easy to set up your project in Hygraph and use our GraphQL API within your Svelte project.

Quickstart

Check out our docs to see how you can quickly set up your Hygraph project and enable the content API for your Svelte website or app.

Learn GraphQL

Hygraph is GraphQL-native Headless CMS offers precise data retrieval, minimizing over-fetching and optimizing efficiency.

Examples

Look at some of the example projects to see Hygraph in action.

Why Hygraph

Choosing Hygraph for your Svelte project

Using a GraphQL-native headless CMS with a Svelte app simplifies work for both developers and content editors. Developers benefit because Svelte's simple code and GraphQL's efficient data fetching make building and updating apps faster.

Content editors find it easy to use the CMS for updating and managing content without needing much technical know-how. This combination ensures that any changes made to the content are quickly shown on the website, making the whole process smoother and more effective for everyone involved.

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Developer Experience

We try to be the most un-opinionated CMS on the market with a wide collection of open source example projects to get you started.

Headless CMS

As a headless CMS (i.e. API based content management), you can be as modular and flexible as you need. We even support multiplatform content management.

Management API

Hygraph boasts a flexible and powerful management API to manage your content and schema, as well as a blazing fast content API.

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