The Local API Pattern

Most headless CMSes force you to fetch content over HTTP, even when the CMS and the frontend run in the same process. Kide CMS takes a different approach.

Import, don't fetch

With Kide, content operations are plain TypeScript imports: cms.posts.find() is a direct function call, not an HTTP round-trip. No serialization overhead, no network latency, full type safety.

When HTTP is needed

The admin UI runs as React islands that need to talk to the server. For this, a thin HTTP layer wraps the same local API. But your public pages never go through HTTP; they call the API directly.

Benefits

• Zero network overhead for server-rendered pages

• Full TypeScript types from schema to template

• Same API for admin and public, no duplication

• Easy to test with plain function calls