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title: "Node.js & Headless Drupal on Acquia Cloud"
date: "2019-05-14T18:58:42+00:00"
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The press release went out this morning with the headline, **[Acquia Debuts Node.js and Headless Drupal on Acquia Cloud](https://www.acquia.com/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/acquia-debuts-nodejs-and-headless-drupal-acquia-cloud-september-20)**.

The subhed: "Company Expands Upon Drupal Cloud Solutions for Web and Flexible Content Applications."

**The news:** Acquia today unveiled a new application service for [Acquia Cloud](https://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-cloud) that makes it easy for digital IT teams to build and run JavaScript alongside Drupal. Acquia Cloud now supports the use of Node.js in addition to Drupal.

**Why it's important:** Developers will now be able to leverage tools enabling [continuous delivery](https://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-cloud-cd) and integration across Node.js and Drupal from one user interface. IT professionals benefit from one secure, compliant cloud for Drupal, decoupled Drupal, and JavaScript. Developers gain a single platform that supports their preferred development language and tools to ensure application quality.

Acquia CTO (and Drupal creator and Project Lead) **Dries Buytaert** added some helpful context to this development in [a blog post](https://www.acquia.com/blog/announcing-nodejs-acquia-cloud/20/09/2017/3311441).

Here's what the User Interface looks like:

![Dashboard displaying three applications: Bayside Associates, Node.js Bayside, and Nexus DB canary, each with management options and tags like Drupal and Enterprise.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/36e69c7d-4bd2-485e-8673-f0b4f2145bc8/web/url_56bbb1ade77c51196bf022d389ec0458.jpg)

**Documentation:** [Node.js and Acquia Cloud](/node/55922)