A quick and dirty way to make Drupal requests over the command line. Useful with NodeJS.

request.php

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * Allows Node to make command line requests without a web server.
 *
 * Example use with Node to POST content:
 *   const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');
 *   const input = JSON.stringify({ path: '/some/path', content: 'request content' });
 *   spawnSync(drush, ['php:script', 'request.php', '--script-path=some/script/path'], { input: input });
 */

if (php_sapi_name() !== 'cli') {
  die;
}

$input_data = file_get_contents('php://stdin');
$input = json_decode($input_data, TRUE);

if (!is_array($input) || empty($input['path'])) {
  throw new \Exception('Invalid input.');
}

$admin = \Drupal\user\Entity\User::load(1);

if (!$admin) {
  throw new \Exception('User 1 does not exit.');
}

\Drupal::service('account_switcher')->switchTo($admin);

if (!empty($input['content'])) {
  $request = \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request::create($input['path'], 'POST', [], [], [], [], $input['content']);
}
else {
  $request = \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request::create($input['path'], 'GET');
}

$response = \Drupal::service('http_kernel')->handle($request);

if (!$response->isOk()) {
  throw new \Exception("Request to {$input['path']} failed.");
}

echo json_encode($response->getContent());