Rich Web Applications with ReactJS and Drupal 8

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?
• Why 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

The code for a fully working demo can be downloaded from https://bitbucket.org/spinspire/d8-react

Click here to see the recorded screencast of this session.