At the moment, Hygraph projects can use one of two asset systems. Projects created after February 2024 will use the new Hygraph Asset Management system, while older projects will use the Legacy asset system.
This document discusses the differences between both systems and the first steps in system migration to help you prepare.
The systems differ in four important areas. This section shows you a comparative view of these differences.
The URL the new Hygraph Asset Management system uses to deliver assets slightly differs from the Legacy system.
Instead of the media.graphassets.com URL that the Legacy Asset System uses, the new URL uses a regional subdomain and so it looks like this: regionalSubdomain.graphassets.com.
For example, if your project is hosted in our shared Germany (Frankfurt) region, the domain will be eu-central-1-shared-euc1-02.graphassets.com.
Additionally, the old asset URL only contains a unique handle and some additional transformations following this format:
media.graphassets.com/<transformations>/handle
The new Hygraph Asset Management system URL includes an additional environment identifier and an optional filename at the end:
<regional-subdomain>.graphassets.com/<environmentId>/<transformations>/handle/filename.jpg
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💡 The optional filename at the end of the URL needs to match the filename used to upload the asset.
The file extension (jpg, webp, etc.) needs to match the current version of the asset. If you convert a jpg to webp using URL transformations, that extension at the end needs to be webp.
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