Hygraph CMS Blog

Overview

A lean monetised blog exploring the Hygraph GraphQL CMS as an alternative to Sanity. The most technically interesting part is the hand-rolled AST renderer that walks Hygraph's rich-text node tree and outputs React elements without a third-party renderer library. Google AdSense integration provides display revenue on post pages.

Tech

Next.js 11 with getStaticProps and ISR fetches content from Hygraph's GraphQL endpoint at build time. The AST renderer handles headings, paragraphs, lists, code blocks, and embeds. Tailwind CSS 2 provides utility styling. Deployed to Vercel with automatic ISR revalidation.