GraphCMS is a great tool for anyone who uses Gatsby and wants to save developers time
May 10, 2021

GraphCMS is a great tool for anyone who uses Gatsby and wants to save developers time

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with GraphCMS

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.

Pros

  • 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).

Cons

  • 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).
  • 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

Do you think Hygraph delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Hygraph's feature set?

Yes

Did Hygraph live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Hygraph go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Hygraph again?

Yes

I would recommend GraphCMS to anyone who is also using Gatsby to build their website. If not, I would recommend them to consider GraphCMS but also consider other options. GraphCMS is a tool in which you are responsible to make the most out of it, but sometimes this requires more time and knowledge than a normal engineer may be able to handle. But with more time and attention, the reward of off-lifting content creation from the developers is a huge time saver in the long run.

Hygraph Feature Ratings

Headless CMS
9.0
Content modeling
10
Content authoring interface
9
Content repository/database
9
Content types and taxonomy
8
Content localization
8
User roles and permissions
10
Omnichannel content APIs
Not Rated
Hybrid CMS
8.7
Collaborative editing
8
Content templates
10
WYSIWYG editor
Not Rated
Approval and authoring workflows
8

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