Headless Drupal

A new analysis by Arttus highlights rising enterprise investment in headless Drupal implementations. As of 2025, over 40% of enterprise Drupal projects use headless architecture, driven by requirements for compliance, system integration, and multi-stage workflows that simpler CMS platforms cannot support. ...more

After decades of theming with Drupal, Jay Callicott makes a bold case for moving beyond Twig. He explores why modern JavaScript frameworks outpace Drupal’s current theming system—and why the platform’s future may lie in headless architecture. ...more

Attico’s Aliaksei Lyzo explores headless Drupal in 2025, covering trends, tools, benefits, challenges, and when decoupling truly makes sense. ...more

Headless Drupal promises flexibility, but Jay Callicott outlines why it often falls short. In his latest post, he critiques the integration and maintenance challenges and pitches “Drupal Cloud” as a streamlined, open-source alternative to platforms like Contentful. ...more

Jay Callicott has introduced Drupal Cloud, a prototype platform for building and managing headless Drupal instances through a simplified, Contentful-style interface. The service supports multisite setups and delivers content via JSON:API and GraphQL. ...more

The article by Denys Mykhaiskyi for Fabrity describes Drupal as a headless CMS with React and Next.js integration, outlines JSON:API and GraphQL API options, details SSR and ISR performance strategies, and evaluates when a monolithic setup is more suitable. ...more

Prabashwara Seneviratne of Nuvole shares a practical approach to fast, reliable E2E testing for a headless Drupal-Next.js project. Learn how Docker, JSON-RPC, and Cypress were combined to validate live features with real CMS data. ...more

Marvin Parsons argues that his Custom REST Content Builder module decouples Drupal installations with just 13 configuration files. His ReactJS and TypeScript proof of concept demonstrates API-driven menus, product listings, taxonomies, and core Drupal content streaming in under one week. ...more

Axelerant’s MACH architecture employs Drupal 11 as a headless CMS and Next.js for front-end delivery to support multi-site platforms. The solution features microservices, API-first content via JSON:API and GraphQL, cloud-native hosting, and unified content previews through Next-Drupal. Case studies with a European education consortium and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre demonstrate up to 49 percent SEO improvement and 38 percent faster site performance. ...more

Transform API 2.0.0 is now out with full support for Drupal 11. The update brings smarter rendering, improved entity handling, and better tools for building headless and decoupled sites—all while keeping Drupal’s familiar workflows intact. ...more

Jigish Chauhan’s blog outlines Drupal’s personalization toolkit, but offers little beyond standard feature overviews. While informative for beginners, the piece lacks real-world insights or original analysis on implementation. ...more