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Introducing an awesome React Component to simplify the use of images stored in Hygraph: hygraph-image.

It’s been a wild year for the growing technology. Enterprise adoption continued to grow at a remarkable pace, the legal details which are oh-so-important to those SLAs and RFPs started to solidify and the stack of service providers became ever more robust. Whether you want to roll-your-own or you just want to roll-out in the next 5 minutes - there’s something for everyone.

Contentful is a big player in the headless CMS market and will probably continue to be one for a while. Nonetheless, there are some pain points when working with Contentful, such as SDK issues and REST, and a growing number of developers are looking for alternatives. In this article, I want to compare working with Contentful's REST API and Hygraph's GraphQL API and show advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches.

This tale tells of a time before now, when Gatsby.js (a static site generator that combines React and GraphQL) was only using GraphQL internally. Gatsby could fetch data from static files, contentful APIs, Wordpress databases, and mongoDB, but it never fetched the seed data with GraphQL. Angel, the original plugin author and project leader, looked into static site generators for his personal website remake. He thought to himself, “Well, that doesn’t make much sense, does it?” And the idea was born.

Hygraph is now a Headless CMS with Localization out of the box! Get up and running with i18n at project setup, and deploy to all or specific locales.

Since launching GraphCMS nearly 3 months ago, we have processed millions of API requests and are continuously welcoming an ever growing community.

At Hygraph, we constantly want to improve user experience and invest into new features. We also want to deliver the highest performance possible, no matter where you are located. While we are still working on content localization (it's ready very soon, I promise ? ) and more features to come in the next months, we are happy to introduce our newest feature today:

Recently, we got interviewed on Siftery! We also wanted to share this interview on our blog. Enjoy reading! Kevin William David interviewed Michael Lukaszczyk, Co-Founder at Hygraph to know more.

We just released a new version of our documentation featuring improvements to the assets section and a new guide on nested mutations!