Hi Team, I have APIs from my web application that I am trying to connect to a webflow front end site. I couldn’t find any documentation on how we can plug in these APIs so that the webflow code could reference them and pull in the data.
Can someone please help me with this?
Here is my site Read-Only: [LINK][1]
Thanks!
Jesse
Welcome @jessebookvid 
Webflow doesn’t offer any pre-built solution to use API’s on, or from their front end. But they do offer a healthy amount of API’s for their backend which can in-turn drive the frontend.
If you’d like pure API usage only on the front end, you have to build it (example: fetch) or use third party solutions:
To use the backend API to drive the front end you’d make use of the Webflow CMS, and the associated CMS template page. Those pages are “special” and they give you access to your CMS fields on the front end.
So using the Webflow API to populate a CMS Collection then allows you to display it on the front end and layer on “conditional visibility” (along with any of those third party solutions) to create a richer user experience.
Hope that helps!
UPDATE:
Also forgot to mention the new release of DevLink – Visually design and build web components for React | Webflow which may help you.
