Query-content-from-cms-api

Key Takeaways

• Most headless CMS platforms offer REST, GraphQL, or proprietary query languages
• JavaScript SDKs handle authentication, caching, and error handling automatically
• Use read-only API tokens for client-side queries and write tokens only on the server
• CDN-cached responses are faster but may be slightly stale; uncached responses are always fresh
• Pagination, filtering, and projection reduce response size and improve performance