Headless and Decoupled Drupal
More teams are pairing Drupal with a separate frontend — a React, Vue or Next.js app that pulls content over JSON:API or GraphQL while editors keep using Drupal's own admin UI for everything else. Because Composer is preinstalled and full SSH access is standard on every plan, installing and configuring the contrib modules a decoupled build needs is no different from adding any other Drupal dependency.
The same PHP 8.3 stack and object caching that speed up a traditional themed site also speed up API responses, so a decoupled frontend isn't waiting on a slow backend. Free auto-renewing SSL covers the Drupal backend and any subdomain a frontend calls, and our 24/7 support team can help if a CORS setting needs adjusting.








