Integrating Drupal and Meteor.js

This talk is a work in progress and will hopefully be accepted at Drupalcon Austin 2014. I presented this initially at the Charlotte Drupal Drive-in.

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1. Integrating Drupal and Meteor.js Mark Shropshire
2. Mark Shropshire http://mark.shropshires.net z l @shrop @shrop /shrop /user/14767
3. What’s Drupal? “Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization.” http://drupal.org/about
4. What’s Drupal? and more… A stack of technologies
5. What’s Drupal? • https://api.drupal.org • Drupal Core • Contributed modules, themes, etc. • Fantastic community!
6. What’s Meteor? “Meteor is an open-source platform for building top- quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.” http://meteor.com
7. What’s Meteor? and more… A stack of technologies
8. What’s Meteor? CLI tool: meteor meteor create myNewApp myNewApp: created. ! To run your new app: cd myNewApp meteor cd myNewApp meteor => Meteor server running on: http://localhost:3000/ $ $ $ [[[[[ ~/Sites/myNewApp ]]]]]
9. What’s Meteor? • http://docs.meteor.com/#api • Node Fibers • DDP (Distributed Data Protocol) • Works identically in the browser
 and on the server (when possible) A wonderful API
10. Drupal Web Apps Database Web server Data Client HTTP Request
11. Meteor Web Apps Database Meteor server Data Client Initial package Client Polling Data updates Local DB write (sync) DB writes (async)
12. Why Integrate 
 Drupal and Meteor? • Single sign-on/shared user and profile data • Manage content in Meteor apps with Drupal • Create content in Drupal and end-users view content on a Meteor instance
13. Integration Methods • Distributed Data Protocol (DDP) • RPC from client to server • Client subscriptions to sets of documents • JSON objects/EJSON field specifications • Introducing DDP • DDP Specificaiton
14. Integration Methods • REST APIs • JSON, XML, etc. • Ubiquitous
15. Demos • DDP Analyzer • https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-ddp-analyzer
16. Demos • Drupal 7 services module (REST endpoint) • https://drupal.org/project/services
17. Demos • Meteor/Drupal smart package/module • Integration between Drupal and Meteor with DDP • http://beta.atmospherejs.com/package/drupal • https://github.com/wizonesolutions/drupal- meteor-signup
18. Demos • Node.js integration • https://drupal.org/project/nodejs
19. Questions?