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React JS is a semi-new open source JavaScript rendering library that came out of a collaboration between the Instagram and Facebook engineering teams.  React was created as better a way to approach complex user interfaces where the traditional MVC approach was just not sustainable anymore.

In the last couple of years I have been involved with a lot projects all with the same type of scenario, there is a server housing a content management system or a database, a remote mobile application that reads data from the server,  and usually a web application for anonymous and authenticated web traffic.

In part one of this post I explained the need to have a content management system detached from the web service.  In part two of this post I explained how to sync the data from Drupal to MongoDB and sync it in a way that left Node.js to just read the data and serve it.

In part one of this post I explained the need to have a content management system that was detached from the web service.  In explaining this need I also described how I am going to use Drupal for the CMS, MongoDB for the secondary data store, and Node.js as the web service platform.  Now it is time time for the fun part, setting up our integration!

Over the last couple of months I have been struggling with an idea that involved using Drupal as the content management system and the web service for an application that I am currently building in iOS and Android.  The reason I am struggling with this idea is because I am using Drupal 7 and Drupal 7 was not intended to serve data to a web service, but rather to serve web pages.