Fellow Codeable expert Mészáros Róbert just released a tutorial that shows how to integrate Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms onto a headless WordPress instance.
https://css-tricks.com/headless-form-submission-with-the-wordpress-rest-api/
Nice work mate!
This work should pair well with interests in Frontity and WP Engine's (Atlas Project)
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One thing that starts showing up in headless WordPress projects is that rendering the form is usually the easy part the messy part begins after submission. Things like CORS rules, authentication flows, file uploads, nonce handling, and keeping validation behavior consistent between the frontend and WordPress can become surprisingly complex.
We ran into this on a few CF7 implementations and noticed that the API layer ends up becoming the real integration challenge rather than the form plugin itself. In some cases we simplified the flow with Contact Form to API because it let us handle payload mapping and external API communication directly inside WordPress instead of adding another middleware layer.
Headless setups are powerful, but they definitely shift complexity from theme rendering toward data and workflow architecture.