Building with Sitecore APIs: From Authoring to Experience Edge

Sitecore has made a significant shift towards a fully API-first, headless-friendly architecture. This modern approach decouples content management from delivery, giving developers unprecedented flexibility to work with content from virtually anywhere—be it front-end applications, backend systems, integration services, or automated pipelines.

One of the biggest advantages of this shift is that you no longer need server-side access to Sitecore to manipulate content. Instead, the system exposes a robust set of APIs to support these powerful new use cases.

Sitecore provides three key APIs, each designed for a specific purpose: Experience Edge APIs, Authoring and Management API. Understanding how these APIs relate and differ is crucial for designing robust external integrations, building sync services, and managing your content programmatically.

This blog will  provide a practical, end-to-end view of how these APIs fit into modern architectures. We will specifically walk through how any external system can call the Authoring API using ...