The installation of a minimal Drupal setup is very quick and easy. From there I enabled a few modules and a theme to help me create some data.

• Modules enabled
• Field UI
• Image
• Views
• View UI
• RESTful Web Services

I also installed the Devel module to help with dummy content population of my content type Article.

A common function of a website is to list content in an order, newest items or most relevant, and paginate this list. In Drupal this is commonly done in Views.

I set up my view as follows

• REST Export
• URL of /api/articles
• Display 10 items
• Show fields

This is great, nice and easy and gives the JSON I want.

Now the questions began.

• If I can set a URL for this how are the URLs structured for individual nodes
• If my public facing site is example.com then do I need to access my CMS on a subdomain such as cms.example.com
• How do I know the URL to paginate the Views output
• Can it supply a next and previous URL, how about total number of page

There is a great discussion about React in Drupal core on the Lullabot podcast. At 48:58 they talk about the Drupal APIs and specifically Views. The current status is there are some in place but using Views is a workaround at the moment.

As I keep going hopefully some of these questions will be answered, and I’m sure there will be moe posts and more questions.