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Headless starter kit

The Acquia CMS Headless starter kit aims to preconfigure Drupal for serving structured, RESTful content to third-party content displays such as mobile apps, smart displays, and front-end driven websites.

This starter kit ensures that the most common Drupal modules for headless content delivery are available and preconfigured in your codebase including:

Module Description
JSONAPI Apart from Drupal core, it is used to serve Drupal managed data through a RESTful endpoint using the JSON:API specification.
Consumers A community module used to manage instances of connecting applications, such as Node.js applications, or mobile devices.
Simple OAuth An OAuth implementation that combines with the Consumers module to provide a secure authentication mechanism for consumers to access Drupal data.
Open API The module that helps to describe the JSON:API endpoints using the Open API standard, which can be easily visualized by open source libraries such as Redoc and Swagger U.
REST UI A management interface in Drupal for Drupal’s REST interface.
Next.js A community module for working with Next.js applications.

The starter kit integrates with the Acquia CMS Tour module to help you quickly configure two extra features:

For managing connecting applications, the starter kit also comes with a dedicated dashboard called Headless dashboard.