Rich Web Applications with ReactJS and Drupal 8

Presenters: Jitesh Doshi

Session Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwCX9oPpfPI

ReactJS is the shiny new JavaScript framework that everybody wants to use in their next project. It's a component based approach to building JavaScript based web-applications and SPA's (single page applications). But any JavaScript front-end needs a RESTful service based back-end to store data and implement business logic. Drupal 8 has RESTful services built into core (Drupal 7 has it too, but in contrib modules). So if you have significant investments in Drupal, and need to implement specialized front-ends with Drupal back-end, or if you want to integrate rich web applications within your Drupal site, then this presentation could be useful.

Agenda:

  • What are JavaScript front-ends?
  • What are RESTful back-ends?
  • Introduction to ReactJS
  • Configuring Drupal 8 to serve RESTful services
  • Writing a ReactJS application that leverages Drupal
  • Pulling content from Drupal into ReactJS app
  • Creating Drupal content from a ReactJS app
  • Authentication & Security
  • Best practices

Presentation video: https://youtu.be/UwCX9oPpfPI
Presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-XsgAjBjDs-ITNMBXVt23wzU6ByN68IbpVUAahFwjEs/
Source code: https://bitbucket.org/spinspire/d8-react/

Audience
Experience Level
Intermediate
Schedule Info
Conference Year
2017
Date / Time
Room
Auditorium
Status
Accepted
Session Track
Design, UX, and Accessibility