Hi

I am new on the forum. I got some experience with Umbraco but it was about two years and I do not remember much. So I am about to start new project using Umbraco and got few questions. Let me describe project quickly: So I need home page(site title, seo must be manageable in backoffice) that got search form(search form will return data from external API).

Then I need few pages using same document type. In the same time when I land on each of these page I need to call API to return data for that Page e.g page name Movies, when I click on that in nav menu I want call API and get movies.

Then I need members management in backoffice(I will be fine here).

Then I need kind of basket to store user files(I will think about it later)

Okay, now my questions. How I would like to implement it, so I want to use MVC with Surface Controller for each page I create(including homepage). My question here: why to use hybrid framework if it is not complicate to create own surface controllers or am I missing here something?

So far I did not watch tutorials about umbraco ApiController but to achieve above, surfacecontroller should be fine. So how I think I will implement that is: having service layer that calls API and return data. then in my surface controller I will inject my service.

Before I ended I did some research about UmbracoApiController, why to really use it? Can this be used instead of surfacecontroller?

Okay. Thanks for any help and I am sorry if I put to many question in thread.