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Cloud Platform users develop, deliver, and manage applications in Drupal, Node.js, and decoupled Drupal environments. Node.js is an open-source, server-side environment for JavaScript network applications. It offers a wide range of server-side capabilities. Cloud Platform Enterprise subscribers can combine Acquia platform services and Node.js to create diverse digital experiences leveraging robust JavaScript functionalities.
In Cloud Platform, Node.js provides you a robust set of tools to elevate your decoupled or headless Drupal applications. It also helps you to create decoupled or headless Node.js applications to fetch data from Drupal or create standalone static sites.
Acquia provides the following front-end hosting offerings:
| Offering | Applicable environment |
|---|---|
| Node.js Classic | Cloud Classic |
| Front End Hosting - Basic | Cloud Next |
To get started with these offerings:
- Use Next.js boilerplates such as https://next-drupal.org/ or https://github.com/chapter-three/next-drupal.
Based on your requirement, add one of the following front-end hosting entitlements to your Cloud Platform Enterprise subscription:
- Node.js Classic
- Front End Hosting - Basic
Addition of these entitlements to your subscription incurs an additional cost. For more information, contact your account manager and refer to respective documentation for these offerings.