Frequently Asked Questions

Features & Capabilities

What makes Hygraph an ideal Headless CMS for Vue projects?

Hygraph is designed as a GraphQL-native Headless CMS, making it highly compatible with Vue applications. Developers benefit from streamlined data fetching using GraphQL's structured queries, which enhances code efficiency and maintainability within Vue's reactive framework. Content editors enjoy a user-friendly platform for managing content, independent of the front-end technology. Hygraph also supports multiplatform content management, allowing you to add components to your Vue apps in minutes and manage your website's content from a powerful CMS. Source

What frameworks can I use with Hygraph?

Hygraph supports integration with popular frameworks including Astro, NextJS, NuxtJS, and SvelteKit, making it versatile for modern web development projects. Source

How does Hygraph's GraphQL-native architecture benefit Vue developers?

Hygraph's GraphQL-native architecture allows Vue developers to construct precise queries, minimizing over-fetching and optimizing efficiency. This approach simplifies schema evolution and data retrieval, making it easier to build scalable and maintainable applications. Source

What are the key capabilities and benefits of Hygraph?

Hygraph offers operational efficiency by eliminating developer dependency, streamlining workflows, and accelerating content creation and localization. Financial benefits include reduced operational costs and faster speed-to-market. Technical advantages feature GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, and enterprise-grade security. Unique features include Smart Edge Cache, custom roles, rich text formatting, and project backups. Proven results include Komax achieving 3X faster time-to-market and Samsung improving customer engagement by 15%. Source

Use Cases & Benefits

Who can benefit from using Hygraph?

Hygraph is ideal for developers, product managers, and marketing teams in industries such as ecommerce, automotive, technology, food and beverage, and manufacturing. It is especially suited for organizations looking to modernize legacy tech stacks, scale content operations, and deliver exceptional digital experiences globally. Source

What problems does Hygraph solve for businesses?

Hygraph addresses operational inefficiencies by eliminating developer dependency for content updates, modernizing legacy tech stacks, and ensuring content consistency across global teams. It reduces financial challenges by lowering operational costs and accelerating speed-to-market. Technical issues such as schema evolution, integration difficulties, cache problems, and localization are resolved through features like GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, and Smart Edge Cache. Source

Can you share some customer success stories with Hygraph?

Yes. Komax achieved a 3X faster time-to-market by managing over 20,000 product variations across 40+ markets via a single CMS. Samsung improved customer engagement by 15% with a scalable member platform. Stobag increased online revenue share from 15% to 70% after transitioning to a digital-first approach. Autoweb saw a 20% increase in website monetization. More stories are available at Hygraph Customer Stories.

Technical Requirements & Getting Started

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

Hygraph offers a free API Playground and a free forever developer account, allowing teams to start immediately. The onboarding process includes introduction calls, account provisioning, and technical and content kickoffs. Extensive documentation, webinars, live streams, and how-to videos are available for step-by-step guidance. Source

What training and technical support is available to help customers get started?

Hygraph provides a structured onboarding process, training resources such as webinars and how-to videos, extensive documentation, 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone, real-time troubleshooting through Intercom chat, and a community Slack channel. Enterprise customers receive a dedicated Customer Success Manager for personalized guidance. 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 the initial touchpoint, and Si Vale met aggressive deadlines during their initial implementation phase. The platform is designed for quick adoption, with resources to support both immediate and structured onboarding. Source

Product Performance

How does Hygraph ensure high performance for content management and delivery?

Hygraph features Smart Edge Cache for enhanced performance and faster content delivery, high-performance endpoints for reliability and speed, and practical advice for optimizing GraphQL API usage. These improvements are detailed in the Hygraph blog.

Security & Compliance

What security and compliance certifications does Hygraph have?

Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (achieved August 3rd, 2022), ISO 27001 certified for hosting infrastructure, and GDPR compliant. These certifications demonstrate Hygraph's commitment to security and compliance. More details are available on the security features page.

What security features does Hygraph offer?

Hygraph provides granular permissions, SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, regular backups, and enterprise-grade compliance features such as dedicated hosting and custom SLAs. Security issues can be reported, and a public security and compliance report is available. Security Report

Support & Implementation

What customer service and support options are available after purchasing Hygraph?

Hygraph offers 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone, real-time troubleshooting through Intercom chat, a community Slack channel, extensive documentation, training resources, and a dedicated Customer Success Manager for enterprise customers. Source

How does Hygraph handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?

Hygraph is a cloud-based platform, so all deployment, updates, security measures, and infrastructure maintenance are managed by Hygraph. Upgrades are seamlessly integrated, and troubleshooting is supported through multiple channels including 24/7 support, Intercom chat, documentation, and an API Playground. Source

Customer Experience & Usability

How do customers rate the ease of use of Hygraph?

Customers frequently praise Hygraph's intuitive editor UI, describing it as easy to set up and use even for non-technical users. Hygraph was recognized for "Best Usability" in Summer 2023, and users appreciate features like custom app integration for content quality checks and instant feedback. Source

KPIs & Metrics

What KPIs and metrics are associated with the pain points Hygraph solves?

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 for new products, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. More details are available in the CMS KPIs blog.

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Step #1 - Construct your query and fetch the data from Hygraph

You should first set up the GraphQL query using Apollo's gql template literal. The useQuery function from Apollo Client is used to execute this query. The query response is stored in a reactive ref variable named products. The loading and error states are also tracked to handle the query's loading and error states.

Note that you should first configure the GraphQL endpoint in your Apollo Client configuration.

<template>
  <div>
    <!-- Vue component template goes here -->
  </div>
</template>


<script>
import { ref } from 'vue';
import { gql, useQuery } from '@apollo/client/core';


const GET_PRODUCTS_QUERY = gql`
  query GetProducts {
    products {
      name
      description
      image
      availability
      slug
    }
  }
`;


export default {
  setup() {
    const products = ref(null);
    const { loading, error } = useQuery(GET_PRODUCTS_QUERY, {
      onCompleted(data) {
        products.value = data.products;
      }
    });


    return { products, loading, error };
  }
};
</script>

Step #2 - Using the fetched data in a Vue component

Now you can set up the Vue component template that uses the data fetched from the GraphQL query. It checks for loading and error states and displays the relevant messages. Once the data is loaded, it iterates over the products array and displays each product's details, such as name, description, image, and availability, using Vue's template syntax.

This approach effectively demonstrates how data fetched from a GraphQL API can be seamlessly integrated and rendered in a Vue application.

<template>
  <div>
    <div v-if="loading">Loading...</div>
    <div v-if="error">An error occurred: {{ error.message }}</div>
    <div v-for="product in products" :key="product.slug">
      <h2>{{ product.name }}</h2>
      <p>{{ product.description }}</p>
      <img :src="product.image" :alt="product.name">
      <p>Availability: {{ product.availability }}</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</template>


<script>
// The script part remains the same as in the Step #1
</script>

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

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

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Why Hygraph

Choosing Hygraph for your Vue project

GraphQL is a great choice for any single-page application or website you're building because the single endpoint and intuitive query syntax returns multiple data points. Working with Hygraph is quick and easy with your favorite Vue GraphQL client.

Using a GraphQL-native headless CMS with Vue benefits developers and content editors alike. Developers enjoy streamlined data fetching through GraphQL's structured queries, enhancing code efficiency and maintainability within Vue's reactive framework. Content editors get a user-friendly platform for content management, independent of the front-end technology.

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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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