Drupal 8 + Angularjs, Rockstar Duo!

@tatewaky

outerspacecoders.com/jason-acuna

drupal.org

HEADLESS DRUPAL WHAT IS IT?

it is...

• a system that integrates all data in one place making the information provided available to any system that will work as front-end.

• there are several types of applications that can be considered Headless Drupal, some examples are mobiles, frontend frameworks, including drush.

• Headless Drupal, is not the new way to do drupal, is just one of them.

Advantages

• More control over the front end.

• it separate the updates on the front end to use new tachnologies.

• it allows Drupal to be used as part of the stack and not as every single layer.

• We can use the support that drupal content types provide to easily be integrated with any of those systems. 

Disadvantage

• We lost some tools functionalities that drupal provides, such as frameworks, and responsive methodologies we already have in place.

• We have to create the Model twice, once in drupal, and one more in the app. (content types, other structure).

• We have to split our team, drupal experts, app experts.

AngularJS

It is a javascript framework support by google, open-sourced, and they describe themselfs as  MVW (model view whatever works for you) .

RESTful is on core

• Exposes entities and other resources via a RESTful web API. It depends on the Serialization module for the serialization of data that is sent to and from the API.

• Serialization: Provides a service for serialization of data to and from formats such as JSON and XML.
• Hypertext Application Language (hal): Extends the Serialization module to provide the HAL hypermedia format. This is what is used as the primary format in Drupal 8 Core.
• HTTP Basic Authentication (basic_auth): This module implements basic user authentication using the HTTP Basic authentication provider. It faciliates the use of an username and password for authentication when making calls to the REST API.

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Why angularJS?

• Two-way data binding.  simple words, when the model changes, the view changes, and also the other way around.

• dependency injection:  all dependencies that we need will be provided on the modules provided by angular.

• Popularity and cool stuff.

8.0.0-beta15 - 2015-Sep-04

https://www.drupal.org/node/3060/release

REST UI

https://www.drupal.org/project/restui

Cors-drupal8

https://github.com/Brolag/cors-drupal8

WHAT WE WILL BE USING ON THIS PROJECT?