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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By : Alex Burrows
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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By: Alex Burrows

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be used for developing websites and simplifying online management of content for users. This book is a must-have for web developers who are looking to create professional-grade websites using Drupal 8. While building 7 different Drupal websites, we will focus on implementing the out of the box features that come with Drupal 8 and see how we can make some complex sites with minimal custom code. Focusing completely on Drupal 8, this book will help you leverage the new Drupal 8 features such as creating a different types and layouts of content using configuration to build in core with its built-in web services facilities, and effortless authoring using the new CKEditor with an effortless and efficient industry standard approach. The book starts with getting started with the development environment of Drupal. Each chapter will start with a brief overview of the site to be built and the required features. Then, we will proceed to create customized modules and themes and integrate third-party plugins. Lastly, you will learn about "headless" Drupal that uses RESTful services that would help you to display content outside of Drupal By the end of the book, you will be able to implement the knowledge gained to build your own custom websites using Drupal 8.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction and Getting Set Up
3
Get Fundraising with Drupal
5
List Properties with Drupal
6
Express Your Event with Drupal
7
Get Teaching with Drupal

Chapter 8. Go Static with Drupal

Becoming increasingly popular, we are seeing websites and applications using a CMS like Drupal as a content management framework that outputs JSON to a static frontend using popular JavaScript Framework, such as Angular, Node, or React. For this chapter, we will look at Drupal's built-in REST API and how we can send data from Drupal to a frontend framework.

This kind of functionality is becoming used more for applications, but a lot of websites are using this to and harnessing the power of Drupal as a content management system.

We will look at using Drupal's built-in REST API and allowing our frontend to read the data and output it by covering the following topics:

  • Creating our content type
  • Enabling the Drupal core modules needed
  • Creating our view to show our content output
  • Creating our frontend using React

Note

This chapter will get hands on with React - https://facebook.github.io/react/.