Since last week, we finally have the opportunity to explore the new Content Hub Experience Edge functionality. After seeing the presentation of Pieter Brinkman and Mark van Aalst about Experience Edge on the Content Hub, I was really excited to see that we can create our own Content Hub v4 instance.
IMPORTANT
At the moment of writing, there is a bug with Experience Edge. Don't name a Content Hub instance with capital letters. The API creation process will fail! Sitecore is currently working on a fix for this issue.
So there I went and created an environment in the portal. After a bit of waiting, I could start figuring out how it all works. If you are like me, a good chance that you first start trying before reading the manual. So to give you a heads-up, before you can start enjoying the Experience Edge, make sure to read the documentation first.
After reading the documentation, which I know you skipped ;). We need to enable the publishing first in the management portal. In the documentation, you can find it over here. After this has been enabled, we can create an API key that is needed to access the GraphQL endpoint. For the authentication part, you can check the documentation. Keep the following thing in mind; the UI won't let you create an API key for both Preview and Delivery. If you want this, you need to create this via the API.
When we have a key we can start checking out the GraphQL playground that is available within the Content Hub. For more information check out the documentation on GraphQL.