Lightning API

Lightning API provides a standard API with authentication and authorization that allows for easy ingestion of content by other applications. It primarily makes use of the json:api and OAuth2 standards via the JSON:API and Simple Oauth modules.

Lightning API 5.0.0

WARNING: Lightning API 5.0.0 drops all hard dependencies on contributed modules, as well as all previous update paths. Read the release notes before upgrading to it, or you may break your site!

Installation

This module can only be installed using Composer. To add it to your Drupal code base:

composer config repositories.drupal composer https://packages.drupal.org/8
composer require drupal/lightning_api

Updates

Lightning API and its components use the normal Drupal database update system as often as possible. However, there are occasionally certain updates which touch configuration and may change the functionality of your site. These updates are optional, and are performed by a special utility at the command line. This utility is compatible with Drush 9 or later.

To run updates using Drush:

drush update:lightning

Known Issues

For security reasons, the JSON:API module does not support creating or modifying config entities via the API.

Supporting organizations:

Acquia

Sponsor of development, support, and maintenance

Project information

Minimally maintained
Maintainers monitor issues, but fast responses are not guaranteed.
Maintenance fixes only
Considered feature-complete by its maintainers.
Module categories: Decoupled, Developer Tools
2,588 sites report using this module
Created by balsama on 14 November 2017, updated 10 January 2023
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