Mission Statement

As a project, Drupal State has two distinct but complimentary focus areas.

Above all, Drupal State is intended to help reduce the time necessary for JavaScript developers to start experiencing the benefits of Drupal as a decoupled CMS. Developers should be able to spend less time re-inventing ways to interact with JSON:API endpoints, and more time building applications based on Drupal’s flexible content model. We support this goal in a few ways:

• Abstracting JSON:API or Drupal specific concepts where possible.
• Providing reasonable defaults and allowing them to be extended or overridden.
• Favoring functionality included in Drupal Core, but also supporting key parts of the JSON:API ecosystem.
• Supporting simplified GraphQL querying against Drupal Core JSON:API endpoints.

Additionally, Drupal State focuses on providing a common set of tools to help support the Drupal JavaScript ecosystem. This is supported by efforts to make Drupal State:

• Modular - exposing underlying utilities so that they can be used without the entirety of the library.
• Extensible - extend the Drupal State class and access the data store directly when necessary.
• Overridable - use Drupal State with alternative http clients and state management solutions.

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