Harnessing the power of React in SilverStripe 4

Presentation given at StripeCon EU 2018 - Enschede, Netherlands

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1. React in SilverStripe 4 Harnessing its power 21st Sept 2018 • Robbie Averill
2. • Assets • Campaigns • History viewer • Archives • Small components e.g. TreeDropdownField Where it's used already
3. • SilverStripe form schema • React 15 and Redux • GraphQL and Apollo • Reactstrap • SilverStripe's JavaScript Injector What you get
4. • More of the CMS will be React driven • Slowly phasing out Entwine • A new paradigm for frontend SilverStripe CMS development Where it's heading
5. • PHP, SilverStripe and entwine boilerplate • React components • GraphQL queries • Injector transformations Example: new history viewer component
6. Injecting the component A PHP FormField with a SilverStripe template
7. Injecting the component
8. Injecting the component
9. Don't forget to unmount! • Prevent React components from continually mounting into the document by unmounting it
10. From here on out, it's all React!
11. A "hello world" component example
12. Register with Injector
14. Cool man… give me a list!
16. Obviously I wanted some data in the list
17. Scaffolding a GraphQL query
18. Test it with GraphiQL
19. Make query a Higher Order Component • Use the "graphql" HOC (Higher-Order-Component) from the react-apollo package • cms/client/src/state/history/readOnePageQuery.js
20. Inject the query into HistoryViewer
21. Here's your list!
22. Use the React and Redux dev tools • React dev tools let you inspect component structures and props • Redux dev tools let you inspect the current state and how reducers change it over time
24. • Base module provides abstract components • It's up to implementations to define the data queries • Use injector to hook it up • Implemented in the CMS and Elemental modules History Viewer: summary
25. Roadmap: progress since 4.0
26. • Content blocks • Improved versioning features • React and GraphQL extensibility • Unified CMS search interface • Large UX focus Roadmap: progress since 4.0
27. Content blocks
28. React history viewer
29. Archive area
30. React and GraphQL extensibility
31. Unified CMS search interface
32. • SilverStripe 3 supported until Dec 2020 • SilverStripe 4 nears its first anniversary (Nov 2018) • New features built as opt-in SilverStripe 4 modules • More clarity on release expectations Release Management
34. • Mainstream use of APIs to decouple CMS • Focus on managing digital experiences • Deeper integrations with other SaaS tools Analytics, targeting, campaigns, marketing automation, search, etc • Modernise CMS UI through React+GraphQL • New features into minor 4.x releases Coming up in 2019...
35. Q 4 ’ 1 8 Q 1 ’ 1 9 Q 2 ’ 1 9 Q 3 ’ 1 9 Near Future ✓ ISOLATED BUILDS SilverStripe Technology Roadmap API FOUNDATIONS INTEGRATION OF DIGITAL EXPERIENCE SYSTEMS DECOUPLED CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYNDICATED CONTENT PLATFORM AUTOMATION & SCALABILITY ✓ POPULARISE DECOUPLED USE CASE ✶ SILVERSTRIPE CONTENT API ✶ AUTHENTICATED APIS ✶ IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ✶ API INFRASTRUCTURE ✶ CONTENT SHARING ✓ UPGRADE PLATFORMS TO PHP 7 ✶ SURFACE EXISTING USAGE ✶ ANALYTICS MODERNISE CMS UI TECHNOLOGIES SILVERSTRIPE 6 ✓ CONVERT SECONDARY UIs TO REACT ✶ BLOCKS ECOSYSTEM ✓ REACT GRIDFIELD ✓ BLOCKS EDITOR ✓ PATTERN LIBRARY ✶ CONVERT PRIMARY UIs TO REACT ✓ STABILISE GRAPHQL ✶ MULTI CHANNEL Logging and metrics on SSP and CWP ✶ CWP CANDIDATES ON AWS ✶ EXPERIMENTATION AND TARGETING ✶ PERSONALISATION ✶ MARKETING AUTOMATION ✶ LOGGING EVALUATION SILVERSTRIPE 5 ✶ PERFORMANCE ✶ MAXIMISE REUSE ✶ METRICS EVALUATION ✶ AUTOMATED SSL CERT. ON SSP (LET'S ENCRYPT)
36. • 20-25 contributors/month • 500 commits/month • 63,936 total commits • Over 11 years (on GitHub) • 583 total contributors • 828,462 lines of code • 879 open, 4,511 closed issues • 69 open, 9,465 closed PRs Contributions * Graph: OpenHub. Stats: GitHub.
37. • SilverStripe forums • GitHub issues • SilverStripe contributing guide • SilverStripe DSM • Get involved! How to contribute
38. Thank you! Twitter: @robbieaverill Email: robbie@silverstripe.com 21st Sept 2018 • Robbie Averill