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title: "Use Sitecore Headless Services without a Sitecore SDK"
slug: "use-sitecore-headless-services-without-a-sitecore-sdk"
abstract: "Consume Sitecore layout data from any platform that understands JSON."
---
# Use Sitecore Headless Services without a Sitecore SDK

A rendering SDK can vastly simplify the consumption of Layout Data from Sitecore and enable dynamic component construction with Sitecore Placeholders. However, any platform that understands JSON data can consume Sitecore-provided content and layout information directly from the [Sitecore Headless Services APIs](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/hd/23/sitecore-headless-development/services-and-apis.html "Services and APIs"). Therefore, it is not mandatory to use a rendering SDK provided by Sitecore to display Sitecore content and layout information.

> [!important]
> If you are using Headless Services without a rendering SDK, you do not have support for integrating your applications with Experience Editor.

To retrieve Sitecore data through Headless Services without a rendering SDK:

- Deploy a JSS application configuration to `/App_Config/Include` in Sitecore. For examples of application configurations, see the files in the `/sitecore/config` directory of any of the JSS sample applications provided by Sitecore.

> [!note]
> We recommend using Sitecore Experience Edge for production data delivery.