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Drupal 8 Blueprints

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Blueprints Step along the creation of 7 professional-grade Drupal sites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887567
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

1. Introduction and Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER 2. Telling Your Own Story with Drupal 3. Get Fundraising with Drupal 4. Recruit Using Drupal 5. List Properties with Drupal 6. Express Your Event with Drupal 7. Get Teaching with Drupal 8. Go Static with Drupal

Getting started

In order for us to start, we require to have a clean Drupal 8.x installation.

Once this is set up, we will create our content type. For this chapter, we want to show some cars on our frontend.

In Drupal 8, we have the ability to use REST within Drupal core this means we don't need to develop this functionality as its available within Drupal 8 core just by enabling a few core modules, which we will cover in this chapter.

What is REST?

When we create a web service, we want to allow applications to access that data using a web service. REST stands for Representational State Transfer and it is a way that allows a request over HTTP to be actioned, whether it's GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE.

An example of this...

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