Overview

Drupal 8 core provides for solid REST capabilities out-of-the-box, which is great for integrating with a web service or allowing a third-party application to consume content. However, the REST output provided by Drupal core is in a certain structure that may not necessarily satisfy the requirements as per the structure the consuming application expects.In comes normalizers that will help us alter the REST response to our liking. For this example, we will be looking at altering the JSON response for node entities.