matt glaman

I recently held a live stream where I walked through the continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of a Drupal project to DigitalOcean's App Platform and other CI/CD items. App Platform has its quirks, but it's simple to build an application with various components.

I use DDEV-Local for my local development stack. DDEV leverages mkcert for trusted local development certificates. The mkcert tool has been a missing component in my local development stack for a long time. And, the best part, it has worked without any problems. Until this week.

This is the first of two blogs detailing how to build a middleware leveraging ReactPHP to consume data from an API, normalize it, and then push that data into Drupal through JSON:API. In this example will be grabbing data from the PokéAPI.

ReactPHP is an event-driven non-blocking PHP framework that allows to you work in a long-running script through an event loop. At its core, ReactPHP provides an event loop and utilities to trigger events at specific intervals and run your code. This is different than normal PHP script execution which of a short lifecycle and per individual requests.  ReactPHP has been used to build web server applications, web socket servers and more. But, what if we used ReactPHP to execute operations and tasks on a Drupal application?