Drush commands are commonly run in the Drupal docroot, the directory where Drupal's files live. This is a relatively simple task on your local development environment. But if you're working on multiple sites and each of those sites has one or more remote environments that you connect to via SSH, workflows quickly become complicated. Creating and using Drush site aliases allow you to run Drush commands on any site, local or remote, that you have credentials to access, from any location on your computer that has access to a Drush executable.

In order to allow React to retrieve data from Drupal we need to configure Drupal to serve that data via a web services API. There are numerous ways that you can do this but for now we'll use the JSON API module.

In this tutorial, we'll:

• Install and configure the JSON API module
• Confirm that it's working
• Make some sample requests using a tool like Postman

By the end of this tutorial you should know how to enable and start using the JSON API Drupal module.

React really shines when you want to rapidly create elegant user interfaces. You might be prototyping an application, doing user testing, or experimenting with new features. You can add sophisticated interaction and make use of the many packages that provide UI elements to your React application.

In this tutorial we will: