Drupal offre agli sviluppatori un ambiente di lavoro moderno, che permette di modellare dati ed esporli via API nativamente; questo lo rende un ottimo candidato sia per sviluppare un CMS headless usando un frontend framework moderno, sia per lo sviluppo di microservizi. In questo talk vi presenteremo alcuni casi d’uso per sfruttare al meglio le potenzialità di Drupal fuori dal classico contesto CMS.

1. Headless
Drupal
A modern approach to
(micro)services and APIs
21/09/2021 - Drupal @127.0.0.1

2. IMAGE GOES OVER HERE
● Software Developer @ SparkFabrik
● Fiction enthusiast and Oxford comma lover
● linkedin.com/in/matteostendarditurini
Matteo
Stendardi Turini

3. Index
1. INTRO TO DRUPAL
Quick dive
Drupal as a CMS
Drupal as a framework
2. THE JSON:API ECOSYSTEM
JSON:API format
Ecosystem overview
The modules
3. CONCLUSIONS
What about RESTfuls Web
Services and GraphQL?
Useful links
Thanks, goodbyes,
and Oxford comma

4. INTRO
“Headless” as in…?

5. DRUPAL: WHAT, WHY, AND HOW
(but mostly how)

6. DRUPAL: WHAT, WHY, AND HOW
(but mostly how) Yes, that’s
an Oxford
comma!
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7. Quick dive
into Drupal
INTRO TO DRUPAL
● PHP FOSS
● Content Management System
● Content Management Framework
● Symfony
● Twig
● SemVer

8. Symfony +
Drupal =
INTRO TO DRUPAL
● DependencyInjection
● EventDispatcher
● HttpFoundation
● Routing
● Serializer
● Yaml

9. Drupal as a
CMS
INTRO TO DRUPAL
● Admin panel
● Entities
○ Content types
○ Taxonomies
○ Media
○ Users
○ Blocks
○ Views
○ Custom entities
● Menu
● Permissions
● Themes
● Translations
● Modules

10. Drupal as a
framework
INTRO TO DRUPAL
● Decoupling
● API ecosystem
○ Entity API
○ Cache API
○ Configuration API
○ Form API
○ Migrate API
○ Render API
● Easy extensibility
(Composer)

11. JSON:API-ZING EVERYTHING DRUPAL

12. JSON:API
jsonapi.org

13. JSON:API
ecosystem
JSON:API
● JSON:API module
● JSON:API Extras
● Decoupled Router
● Subrequests

14. JSON:API
Our hero, the JSON:API module

15. JSON:API
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
● Config: only Read or CRUD
● Exposes almost everything!
● Default endpoint /jsonapi
not modifiable
● Core module
● Works out of the box
● Standard and custom entities
● Drupal security restrictions
● URL queries for filters

16. JSON:API
Extras
JSON:API
● Contrib module
(drupal/jsonapi_extras)
● Change default endpoint
● Show collections count
● Override behaviours for resources
www.drupal.org/project/jsonapi_extras

17. JSON:API
LEMME SEE!

18. Decoupled
Router
JSON:API
● Contrib module
(drupal/decoupled_router)
● /router/translate-path?path=
● Follows redirects
● Returns JSON:API path
www.drupal.org/project/decoupled_router

19. Subrequests
JSON:API
● Contrib module
(drupal/subrequests)
● /subrequests
● POST request
● Drupal resolves subrequests
www.drupal.org/project/subrequests

20. JSON:API

21. JSON:API
POSTMAN TIME

22. JSON:API
JSON:API Extras Decoupled Router Subrequests
JSON:API module

23. What else
is there?
JSON:API
● JSON:API Search API
● Entity share
● Commerce API
● ...and a lot more stuff
https://www.drupal.org/project/jsonapi/ecosystem

24. HEY! WHAT ABOUT...

25. RESTful Web Services
CONCLUSIONS
GraphQL
● Contrib module
● Latest to the show
● Good specs
● Tricky write operations
● Complex client filtering
● Core module
● Needs custom configuration
● Limited filtering options
● Multiple requests for different
needs
● Collections with views

26. Links
CONCLUSIONS
● Drupal documentation
● Drupal APIs
● Drupal on Symfony
● JSON:API specs
● JSON:API ecosystem on Drupal
● JSON:API Extras
● Decoupled Router
● Subrequests
● REST vs JSON:API vs GraphQL

27. THANK YOU, YOU,
AND ESPECIALLY YOU!

28. THANK YOU, YOU,
AND ESPECIALLY YOU!
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