Hygraph

How we build web apps using Hygraph

Our team has long held a focus on composable architectures upon which to build powerful applications. We work with our clients to identify data and application requirements, and create a suitable application and API architecture with appropriate service integrations and technology solutions. For data integration, Given its data and content integration capabilities, Hygraph often provides a compelling choice for content rich applications, structured business information such as knowledge management, customer self-service and supply chain portals, and product inventory management. For the API layer, we regularly find that GraphQL-based solutions offer the best mix of query expression power, scalability, and development velocity.

Hygraph Capabilities and Background

Hygraph is the enterprise-grade federated content platform that enables ambitious digital transformation. With the industry's most versatile GraphQL content API and a novel approach to external data sourcing, the federated content platform makes possible use cases beyond existing market solutions. Its capabilities can be extended as a database highly optimized for structured content, while giving content creators the tools to build their ultimate content pipeline.

Hygraph is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and is currently enabling companies across the world, including Dr.Oetker, Shure, Samsung and Philips, to rapidly build and deliver tomorrow's connected digital experiences at scale.

Rich Text Improves Digital Experiences

A lot of content-driven experiences require rich text. Hygraph has a superb in-app rich text editor field that feels natural and is easy to create text with different formatting options. To display the rich text in your web app you get a Markdown or HTML representation of the content via the GraphQL query. Hygraph also has a Markdown component as well.

Flexible Content Editing Experience

Content in Hygraph can be added in through a web experience that visually shows the models, relations, and schemas, as well as metadata like the publishing state and last update dates. Content publishing can also be scheduled for a later date as well. The web interface is great for editors or non developers to update, create, and publish content to a site or app without having to make code changes.

On the more technical end, content can also be created and updated through a GraphQL mutation. Engineers can use this for migration scripts for bulk uploading or web experiences that need to update content on the front-end.

Localization Support

Hygraph supports localization of content out of the box. The content editor interface lets you add and manage locales, even after content has been modeled and created. Developers get access to GraphQL queries that have built-in support for getting and updating content in single and multiple languages. This makes adding locales down the road as customers expand their footprint more straightforward with less additional architecture or rework required.

Dynamic Property-Based Filtering and Searching

Querying Hygraph for data comes with some neat built-in support for filtering and searching. Numeric and date-based properties get equal, greater, and less than comparators added to filtering out records. Use this to get records made or updated after a certain date, or records that meet some numeric threshold like products over a certain price. Queries also support text based searching across records with text content to enable simple searching functionality.