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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Fetching data from Drupal using JSON:API

With just a few clicks, we can open up and expose data from Drupal to consume from external services. This will enable us to ask Drupal for data and return it to us in JSON, making it easy to consume.

Getting ready

First, we need to enable some core modules. Head to Admin | Extend and enable the following:

  • HTTP Basic Authentication
  • JSON:API
  • RESTful Web Services
  • Serialization:
Figure 12.1 – Enabling the necessary modules in Drupal

Figure 12.1 – Enabling the necessary modules in Drupal

The JSON:API module users the Serialization module to handle the normalization of a response and denormalization of data from requests. Endpoints support specific formats (JSON, XML, and so on), and authentication providers support passing authentication in the headers of requests.

Important note

Note that at the time of writing, multilingual support is still being finalized under JSON:API. You can track the status of this issue here: https:/...