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What is Hygraph?
Hygraph (previously GraphCMS) is a native GraphQL Headless Content Management System (CMS) and now evolved as a Federated Content Platform, enabling teams across the world to unify, structure, enrich and distribute content from anywhere to anywhere.
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What is Hygraph?
Hygraph (previously GraphCMS) is a native GraphQL Headless Content Management System (CMS) and now evolved as a Federated Content Platform, enabling teams across the world to unify, structure, enrich and distribute content from anywhere to anywhere.
Boasting users among companies like Telenor, Samsung, Shure, and Unilever, Hygraph was designed for building a hosted GraphQL back-end that provides the tools needed for modern omnichannel content management. Hygraph enables teams to create and publish application content via an intuitive Content Studio, or programmatically consume and deliver content through existing frontends and backends.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Users have found GraphCMS to be a valuable alternative to other headless CMS platforms that may be overly complex, costly, or lack developer-friendly features. One of the platform's standout features is its ability to seamlessly integrate with existing websites, allowing users to pull content from GraphCMS during the build process. This capability has proven to be highly beneficial for users, eliminating the need for separate CMSs like WordPress.
GraphCMS offers robust connection capabilities that simplify the creation of data collections and their association with other information. Software development companies have particularly benefited from this functionality when using GraphCMS for their own websites or customer projects, including native mobile apps and progressive web apps. Additionally, users have leveraged GraphCMS as a powerful tool for prototyping GraphQL schemas and managing non-tenant-specific GraphQL app/databases.
One notable aspect of GraphCMS is its exceptional customer support, which has contributed to a positive overall user experience. Users have also utilized GraphCMS for real-time content updates, such as pushing breaking news stories to their project's webpage without compromising quality. The platform's accelerated development time for CMS-based products allows for faster prototyping and production versions. It empowers non-engineers to create content for marketing websites while engineers define the data model, enabling easy content management through the user interface. Furthermore, GraphCMS's content validation feature ensures that published content is valid and won't disrupt website functionality, providing users with peace of mind.
GraphQL API: Multiple users have praised the GraphQL API of GraphCMS for providing a powerful system for content management. Several reviewers appreciate its functionality and flexibility in handling data queries and mutations.
Responsive web facilities for maintaining simulations: The web facilities for maintaining simulations in GraphCMS are quick, easy to use, and highly responsive according to multiple users. They find these facilities accessible even to those without much technical knowledge due to their low learning curve.
User-friendly UI: Users express satisfaction with the user interface UI of GraphCMS across reviews. They highlight its clarity based on an object-based paradigm, making it intuitive for non-technical individuals to navigate. The platform's ability to reuse material across multiple versions adds to its appeal.
Difficult Rich Text Editing and Collaboration: Non-technical content writers have found it challenging to use the simplistic and lacking rich text editing and collaborative features. Some users have expressed difficulty in formatting their content and collaborating with others due to these limitations.
Data Migration Limitations: Multiple reviewers have mentioned their frustration with the inability to migrate data from one context to another. This limitation has hindered users who need to transfer their existing data or make changes across different contexts.
Chaos of Two Windows for Editing: Adding material in two separate windows in the browser can cause chaos and requires manually reloading the panel to see updated content, as reported by a number of users. This workflow disruption has negatively impacted user experience and efficiency.
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GraphCMS is a way for us to allow non-engineers at our company to create content for our marketing website. Once the engineers define the data model within GraphCMS, other employees at our company can easily add the content through their UI, and once published, our build system automatically rebuilds the website with the new content. This allows us to make sure the content is valid and won't break the website, but doesn't force engineers to make small copy/image adjustments on the website.
- GraphCMS is easy to work with from the "non-engineer" side of things.
- GraphCMS is very flexible on what data models we can create and how those models are formed.
- GraphCMS uses Graph API, which is easy to write (compared to older API patterns).
- GraphCMS is very expensive at the enterprise level.
- GraphCMS requires deep knowledge of the system and requires lots of time to be efficient with it (especially around creating specific data patterns/relationships).
- Multiple times a day, the system will give us errors when attempting to save something but the errors are unclear as to what went wrong (can be irritating).
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- Better use of time for our engineers in the long run.
- More control of content for people outside of the engineer team.
- Allows people to edit the content on their own, so they don't need to wait until a developer is available to add something to the website.
We picked GraphCMS since it used Graph API and easily integrated it into our Gatsby website. It was also cheap (free) and easy to test out the product, making it easier to prove to our company we should pay for the product in the long run. Lastly, it seems to have a bunch of support from other developers which makes us confident will be around for a while (and we won't need to replace it anytime soon). Note: I also looked at Directus and DatoCMS but these were not options within TrustRadius