Getting Started with Hygraph
Explore the basics of Hygraph by creating an account and setting up your first project. Understand how to build schemas and models that structure your content, enabling seamless integration with your React application using GraphQL.
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To use Hygraph, we first have to create an account and verify the account. Then, we can proceed to create a project.
Creating an account
To create an account with Hygraph, we must first navigate to their website. The Hygraph website has a very nice UI with a "Get Started" call-to-action button in the top left corner of their homepage, as seen below:
Once we click that "Get started" button, it will direct us to the login/register page. Hygraph provides several authentication methods through such as Facebook, GitHub, Google, or even email.
Creating a project with Hygraph
Once we have successfully signed in, we will be redirected to our dashboard, which will hold all our available projects in the future, but for now, it is assumed we don't have any projects, so we have to create a new project.
It is important to note that Hygraph has some templates whose schema has already been created—all we would have to do is maybe edit a few fields or start consuming data right away.
However, we’ll create our schema from scratch to help us understand the process. The first step is to click on the "Blank" ...