Using ReactPHP to consume data from an HTTP API

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. In the second blog post, we will take the data and create Pokémon nodes on a Drupal site.

The purpose of the middleware is to avoid putting this logic into the Drupal codebase. Drupal has an amazingly robust Migration API for consuming data and processing data to create content. Every Drupal site I have ever…