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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Development Cookbook Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this practical recipe-based guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788290401
Length 430 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Up and Running with Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Content Authoring Experience 3. Displaying Content through Views 4. Extending Drupal 5. Frontend for the Win 6. Creating Forms with the Form API 7. Plug and Play with Plugins 8. Multilingual and Internationalization 9. Configuration Management - Deploying in Drupal 8 10. The Entity API 11. Off the Drupalicon Island 12. Web Services 13. The Drupal CLI

Using JSON API

When developing a backend API for frontend consumers, there is often much debate on naming conventions and returned value structures. In comes {json:api}, an open source specification set to standardize and simplify the building of APIs, which consume and return JSON payloads. The specification and documentation can be found at http://jsonapi.org/.

For Drupal, there is a community-lead effort to provide a robust JSON API specification implementation to turn Drupal into a streamlined API server. This recipe will install the JSON API module and show how to enable resources.

Just like the RESTful Web Services module provided by Drupal core, the JSON API module does not provide a user interface. It also enables all content to be available over the API automatically (given that users have permissions configured to access the endpoint.) The JSON API Extra module changes...

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