# Headless Umbraco Platform

Umbraco 13 Next.js 14 .NET 8 Azure

A regional media organisation needed to move away from their monolithic Umbraco front-end to a headless architecture that could power both web and a forthcoming mobile app from a single content source.

## The challenge

The existing Umbraco 10 site had tightly coupled Razor views that made content reuse across channels impossible. An editorial team publishing news daily needed zero disruption during migration.

## Approach

We built the new platform on Umbraco 13’s Content Delivery API, giving the editorial team the same familiar back-office while exposing all content through a versioned REST endpoint. The Next.js 14 front-end consumes this API with Incremental Static Regeneration, keeping page loads under 200ms without sacrificing editorial freshness.

Azure CDN sits in front with a custom purge strategy — only pages touching changed content are invalidated. The result is effectively static performance with real-time editorial control.

## Outcome

- Core Web Vitals moved from mid-tier to the top 10% for their category
- Build times under 3 minutes for a 12,000-page site
- Editorial team experienced zero workflow interruption during migration