Should Frontend Requests for Content be Proxied through our Backend Service to Sanity or just Query the Sanity API Directly from the Frontend?

Hello, my team is evaluating Sanity as a possible headless CMS API provider. We have a several FE applications (one where an adminstrator would configure content, one where the end user would see the content, and then a backend API service. My question is - is it recommended that FE requests for content be proxied through our backend service to Sanity or just query the Sanity API directly from the FE?

I guess it depends if all your data is public. We opted for no proxy and treat all data in Sanity as public knowledge

Another consideration is whether you expect heavy traffic. It's not terribly expensive to go over the limits on a plan, but it may still be worth adding a proxy to cache the Sanity contents. One of my projects already had an API requirement because the data is only semi-public (paywalled), so we've also implemented some caching that cut our Sanity API usage significantly.