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 |
|---|---|
Serves Drupal core and Drupal-managed data through a RESTful endpoint using the JSON:API specification. You can incorporate SEO meta tags in JSON API responses and expose them through the application. | |
A community module used to manage instances of connecting applications, such as Node.js applications, or mobile devices. | |
An OAuth implementation that combines with the Consumers module to provide a secure authentication mechanism for consumers to access Drupal data. | |
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. | |
A management interface in Drupal for Drupal’s REST interface. | |
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.