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lightning_api

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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.

Activity

Total releases
1
First release
Jun 2026
Latest release
19 hours ago
Release cadence
—
Stability
100% stable

Releases

Version Type Release date
5.1.0 Stable Jun 5, 2026