Hi Nick,

Have a look at the HeadRest package for exposing end points for accessing content. I.e. turning the CMS headless.

For heartcore projects, HeadRest is probably your only real option, or you can write your own api controllers to handle the requests.

The Umbraco open source CMS has never been headless out of the box, so it's always been a case of installing a package or creating your own API end points to achieve it I believe.

Thanks

Nik

You don't need 3. party things, to make things headless. That said, you can' directly serialize IPublishedContent, so you will need to write your own conversion logic.

Either create a class inheriting from RenderMvcController that replaces the default Umbraco controller, or create one for each route you wan't to hijack. See: https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/routing/custom-controllers

Ex:

public class HeadlessController : RenderMvcController
{
    public ActionResult Index(IPublishedContent model)
    {
        var serializableThing = ...convert your  model...";

        return new ContentResult
        {
            Content = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(serializableThing),
            ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8,
            ContentType = "application/json"
        };
    }
}

You don't need headless to use reactjs in umbraco. It won't be SPA though. I am using umbraco and react.js for a while and the result is perfect. It is working with both 8 and 9 version

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