Drupalize.me has published 18 tutorials on Search API and Solr in Drupal. Learn about Drupal's built-in search capabilities and how to take your site's search to the next level with Apache Solr in this new series. You'll also learn how to set up your local development environment using Docker so that you can follow along. By the end of this series you'll have a firm grasp on concepts related to Search API and Solr in Drupal and how to configure the software for use on your Drupal 8 application.

In trying to answer the question I realized that I first needed to know more about what they are trying to accomplish. Like with most things Drupal, there's more than one right way to accomplish a task. Choosing a solution requires understanding what options are available and the pros and cons of each. This got me thinking about the various different ways one could consume data from an API and display it using Drupal 8.