A possible future:
GraphQL and React ❤️ Drupal
Michael Schmid
CTO Amazee
2013 - 2016
Amazee Labs ⚔️ Decoupled
October 2016:
Client:
Let's build 12 Websites with the same Backend
Amazee Labs:
😮
😱
🤔
💡
www.gaultmillau.ch
www.beobachter.ch
React
Apollo
Redux
Drupal
GraphQL
Amazee Labs:
😍👌💪
- GraphQL
- GraphQL in Drupal
- React
- All together
by Facebook
- started in 2012
- public in 2015
demo time
📽
Hint: SWAPI REST vs SWAPI GraphQL
GraphQL
- get exactly what you need
- multiple resources in one
- Fragments, Variables, etc.
- Any Schema possible
- Mutations
- Versionless
- Strongly Typed
Drupal GraphQL Module
- Full GraphQL support
Example
query {
route(path: "/node/1") {
entity {
entityLabel
entityType
entityId
}
}
}
{
"data": {
"route": {
"entity": {
"entityLabel": "Hello!",
"entityType": "node",
"entityId": 1
}
}
}
}
- Learn GraphQL: http://graphql.org/learn/
- Expose Content via Entities or Views
- Use GraphiQL
- Comes with graphql module, access at /graphql/explorer
- ctrl+space is your best friend
Usage
Configure to your needs
Configure to your needs
GraphQL Module
- Used in Production
- You can bring own schema
- Content and Config Entities
- Full Drupal Cache & Cache Tag support
- Mutations
React: Frontend Library
Apollo: GraphQL Client
Redux: Predictable state container
SEO! Accessibility!
Isomorphic Javascript
- Browser requests first page
- Nodejs on Serverside renders the Page with API requests
- Sends HTML over to Browser
- Browser morphs into full JS App
- Requests go to API directly
(ServerSide rendering)
demo time
📽
Hint: prod site isomorphic
Performance!
Multiple Requests in one
- React, Apollo and Redux keep internal cache of everything
- GraphQL has multiple Resources in one Request
demo time
📽
Hint: prod site map & footer
Hosting?
and now
all together
everything you need
https://github.com/fubhy/drupal-decoupled-app
demo time
📽
Hint: local decoupled app
Résumé
- High initial investment
- Amazee Labs committed
- OpenSource everything
- Training, Blogposts, etc.
- Developers ❤️
- Clients ❤️
- Very excited about the future 🚀
A possible future: GraphQL and React ❤️ Drupal - DrupalCamp Costa Rica
By Michael Schmid
A possible future: GraphQL and React ❤️ Drupal - DrupalCamp Costa Rica
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