Decoupled Drupal in Practice: Architect and Implement Decoupled Drupal Architectures Across the Stack

by Preston So

Gain a clear understanding of the most important concepts in the decoupled CMS landscape. You will learn how to architect and implement decoupled Drupal architectures across the stack―from building the back end and designing APIs to integrating with front-end technologies. You'll also review presenting data through consumer applications in widely adopted technologies such as Angular, Ember, React, and Vue.js. Featuring a foreword by Drupal founder and project lead Dries Buytaert, the first part of this book chronicles the history of the CMS and the server–client divide, analyzes the risks and rewards of decoupled CMS architectures, and presents architectural patterns. From there, the book explores the core and contributed landscape for decoupled Drupal, authentication mechanisms, and the surrounding tooling ecosystem before delving into consumer implementations in a variety of technologies. Finally, a series of chapters on advanced topics feature the Drupal REST plugin system, schemas and generated documentation, and caching. Several projects point to a decoupled future for Drupal, including the Contenta CMS and work to modernize Drupal's JavaScript using React. Begin learning about these and other exciting developments with Decoupled Drupal today. What You’ll Learn Who This Book Is For Those with some exposure to CMSes like WordPress and Drupal and those who wish to follow along with JavaScript application development will benefit. A familiarity with API-first or services-oriented architectures is helpful but not presumed.

519 pages, Paperback

Published December 12, 2018

Reviews

[Valentino Gagliardi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Occasionally I use Drupal in combination with front-end frameworks, and this book offers a complete and nice overview to catch up with the current state of decoupled Drupal architectures. The examples for React use classes instead of hooks, but it's understandable since the book has been completed in 2018. However, it's not clear why the author uses the now deprecated componentWillMount() for fetching data, instead of the recommended componentDidMount(). Overall, a nice book.

[Luis González · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book with a lot of interesting content but you will need to have a real project to place all this knowledge in practice.