Headless Drupal

by Bene Lóránt

2. Problems

Site installation and configuration management

• configuration staging
• site UUID
• shortcut UUID
• default language

Solution

• installation profile, with default language YML included
• database cloning

Restricting the BO

• creation of custom theme
• show 404 for anonymous user on all pages except login
• certain anonymous calls need to be performed

Solution

• making use of the Event Dispatcher component of Symfony2

http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/event_dispatcher/introduction.html

Sitemap Generation

• paths on the website belong to the Front, so sitemap generation through contrib can't be done

Solution

• use third-party library(composer-managed):

https://packagist.org/packages/evert/sitemap-php

• generate the custom sitemap

Services

• lack of clear documentation for services as defined and understood by D8

https://www.drupal.org/node/2405657

XLS Views Export

• the D7 module's implementation is wrong
• needs third-party library:

• Views Plugins have to be created

https://packagist.org/packages/phpoffice/phpexcel

OOP Form Building

• D7 form builders are often unreadable
• Implemented custom FormBuilder service

Useful links

https://www.drupal.org/developing/api/8/configuration

https://www.drupal.org/node/2405657

https://groups.drupal.org/headless-drupal

https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/what-is-headless-drupal/

http://www.amazeelabs.com/en/blog/drupal8-configuration-management-part1

Questions?

Thanks!