Decoupled Drupal in Practice: Architect and Implement Decoupled Drupal Architectures Across the Stack

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11. Using Views with Core REST

Preston So¹ 

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Ridgewood, NY, USA

 

Sometimes, the core REST API isn’t adequate for your needs, whether due to the fact that it is ill-equipped to issue collections of resources or because you cannot get out of Drupal the information that you require in your consumer. Many of the same motivations that lead decision makers to choose Drupal as a CMS—namely the Views module and its flexible query building—transfer to decoupled Drupal implementations as well. Fortunately, Views contains a REST export display type that can be employed to provide custom-designed, read-only APIs.

Using Views for Content Listings

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