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:
NERD Summit 2015
Full Slidedeck with Speaker Notes:
https://github.com/milsyobtaf/prez/raw/primary/2015/NERDSummit/nearly-headless-drupal_notes.pdf

Transcript

1. NERD Summit 9/11/15 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. • Content Portability • Front End Flexibility • Ease of upgrade / redesign • Security (Kinda) Why Headless?
7. Security, Kinda
8. Security, Kinda • /user/login • /user/reset • /node/add
9. 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
10. Why Not Headless?
11. • Complexity of Code • Complexity of Hosting • Reliance on Javascript Why Not Headless?
12. Nearly Headless?
13. • Limited hosting resources Use Cases
14. The URL Came From Inside The Site
15. The URL Came From Inside The Site
16. The URL Came From Inside The Site
17. The URL Came From Inside The Site
18. • Limited hosting resources • Prototyping • Incremental upgrade plan • Adding external features Use Cases
20. Drupal 8 Makes It Easy
21. • 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)
22. • APIs as a contract • Versioning • Create an interface, not an implementation • API Design, The Musical, David Diers API Basics
23. • POSTMan / Newman • https:/ /www.getpostman.com/ • JSONView • http://jsonview.com/ • apiary • https:/ /apiary.io/ • API Design, The Musical • David Diers API Tools and Resources
24. Demo Time!
25. We’re Hiring!
26. http:/ /fourkitchens.com/careers
27. Thank you! All content in this presentation, except where noted otherwise, is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licensed and copyright Four Kitchens, LLC.