Phenomic content API is optional. It only make sense if you use files as your content input (eg: markdown). As soon as you use it, JSON files will be created during static rendering. This static JSON files will be used client side navigation instead of HTML files after the first page viewed.
The optional content API offers additional steps during the process:
- Content files are read from the filesystem (+ watched for change during development)
- Those files are transformed as data*
- The data resulting from the transformation is injected into Phenomic database and later accessible via the content API
To access those data, you will use the api-client but probably not directly via this module. Renderer plugins might expose wrapper around the query utility (eg: withPhenomicApi higher order component for react plugin).