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

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Preston SoDecoupled Drupal in Practicehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4072-4_4

4. Decoupled Drupal

Preston So¹ 

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Ridgewood, NY, USA

 

Simply put, decoupled Drupal is the process of employing Drupal as a web service provider that exposes data for consumption by other applications (Figure 4-1). Drupal can be used to back other server-side applications, native desktop and mobile applications, single-page JavaScript applications, over-the-top applications, and IoT applications. Indeed, any application that can perform requests against a web service can be a consumer of the APIs exposed by a decoupled Drupal implementation.

Figure 4-1 ...