Headless mode with Delivery API
Headless usage keeps rising because it lets teams ship faster across multiple frontends, improves performance by decoupling rendering, and scales cleanly as channels multiply. SPAs and native apps benefit most because they can request exactly the data they need and cache it aggressively. Industry guides and platform docs keep returning to the same benefits: omnichannel delivery, flexibility, performance, and team independence.
SPAs and native clients shouldn’t be scraping HTML web pages. They want clean JSON with predictable shapes, culture-aware text, and media that works everywhere. Umbraco’s built-in content Delivery API delivers exactly that at the relative link: /umbraco/delivery/api.
It’s production-grade, versioned, and extensible, so you can keep editors in Umbraco and let React, Angular, Next.js, Swift, Blazor, or .NET MAUI clients consume pure data.
The Umbraco CMS Delivery API gives you:
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