How to avoid HTTP request to get Strapi data running own server as single process

[DMehaffy]

@justincalleja

especially since if I do run them separately, they’d be running on the same server in my case and it just seems silly).

That is common yes but the benefit being is they don’t need to and you can scale the backend (Strapi) without needing to scale the frontend. In many cases (Strapi included) we have our Strapi instances running in AWS but our frontends are deployed on another platform entirely (say Vercel).