Nearly Headless Drupal

There are some things Drupal is great at, and some things it is, well, less great at. With years of hard work, Drupal has become a pretty strong content manager. You can build robust data models, easily enable content revisioning, and build out a publishing workflow complex enough for even the strictest of editorial standards. However, even the blistering speed of development on Drupal 8 appears glacial when compared with the rate of invention on the front-end of web development. In this session we will take a look at how you can build small custom modules to leverage the content management strengths of Drupal while taking advantage of the latest advances in front-end technologies to build more interactivity into a Drupal website with minimal effort and maximum portability.

Presented at:
SANDCamp 2016
Full Slidedeck with Speaker Notes:
https://github.com/milsyobtaf/prez/raw/primary/2016/SANDCamp/nearly-headless-drupal_notes.pdf

Transcript

1. SANDCamp 2/26/2016 Nearly Headless Drupal
2. Howdy! I’m an engineer at Four Kitchens Dustin Younse @milsyobtaf
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5. What Is Headless Drupal?
6. HOT DRAMA
7. • http://dgo.to/2645250 • http://buytaert.net/the-future-of- decoupled-drupal • https:/ /www.chapterthree.com/blog/
 why-progressive-decoupling-
 drupals-front-end-bad-idea • http://www.marcdrummond.com/ posts/2016/02/23/js-future-drupal- front-end-chat-with-socrates HOT DRAMA
8. • Content Portability • Front End Flexibility • Ease of upgrade / redesign • Security (Kinda) Why Headless?
9. Security, Kinda
10. Security, Kinda • /user/login • /user/reset • /node/add
11. Headless Successes • The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon • http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show • This Week In Tech • http://twit.tv • The Weather Channel • http://www.weather.com
12. Why Not Headless?
13. • Complexity of Code • Complexity of Hosting • Reliance on non-Drupal code 
 and infrastructure Why Not Headless?
14. Nearly Headless?
15. • Limited hosting resources Use Cases
16. The URL Came From Inside The Site
17. The URL Came From Inside The Site
18. The URL Came From Inside The Site
19. The URL Came From Inside The Site
20. • Limited hosting resources • Prototyping • Incremental upgrade plan • Adding external features Use Cases
22. Drupal 8 Makes It Easy
23. • Views now in core • REST Exports now in core • New Javascript now in core • Adding 3rd Party Javascript easier than ever Drupal 8 Makes It Easy(ish)
24. • APIs as a contract • Versioning • Create an interface, not an implementation • API Design, The Musical, David Diers API Basics
25. • POSTMan / Newman • https:/ /www.getpostman.com/ • JSONView • http://jsonview.com/ • apiary • https:/ /apiary.io/ • API Design, The Musical • David Diers API Tools and Resources
26. Demo Time!
27. We’re Hiring!
28. http:/ /fourkitchens.com/careers
29. Thank you! All content in this presentation, except where noted otherwise, is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licensed and copyright Four Kitchens, LLC.