The RESTful Web Services module provides routes that expose endpoints for your RESTful API. It utilizes the Serialization module to handle the normalization to a response and denormalization of data from requests. Endpoints support specific formats and authentication providers. Upon installation, the RESTful Web Services module does not provide any default configured endpoints.
There is one caveat: RESTful Web Services does not provide a user interface to configure available endpoints. Enabling resource endpoints can be done by manually editing configuration or the REST UI module. We will use the REST UI module in this recipe.
In this recipe, we will install RESTful Web Services and enable the proper permissions to allow the retrieval of nodes via REST to receive our formatted JSON.
