Introduction to Headless Drupal

Drupal is an amazing platform for making websites, but it can also be a world-class API that can easily integrate with other technologies. In this class you will learn how to create fully featured APIs in Drupal, and you’ll build a simple Node.js application that consumes that API to make a highly interactive website.

If you are looking to learn about building APIs in Drupal, or creating websites with Node.js, this class is for you!

We will teach you to how to create strategies for success when building and launching your first decoupled Drupal project. To do this, we’ll talk about general API design concepts and best practices, dig into some code, and create a RESTful endpoint in Drupal. Once your API is complete, we’ll learn about best practices in Node.js, the keys to creating a fast and modular front end. You’ll interactively learn how to create a Node.js application using the popular Express framework, and then use that application to consume data from your new Drupal API. While creating your application, we’ll go over some benefits of using Node.js to consume Drupal APIs, and talk about other stacks that you might use. You’ll walk away with working knowledge on how you can build decoupled Drupal sites.

Meet the Trainers from Four Kitchens

• Matt Grill (drpal), Engineer at Four Kitchens
• Patrick Coffey (pcoffey), Engineer at Four Kitchens

This class is taught by Matt Grill and Patrick Coffey, engineers at Four Kitchens. They have worked together on presentations and trainings at previous DrupalCons and regional U.S. Drupal Camps. They are focused not only on teaching others to create decoupled Drupal stacks, but also on inspiring and enabling attendees to create and consume elegant APIs.

Attend this Drupal Training

This training will be held on Monday, 21 September from 09:00-17:00 at the Barcelona International Convention Center. The cost of attending this training is €500 + VAT and includes coffee and pastries before the training, lunch and coffee breaks. A DrupalCon ticket is not required to register to attend this event.

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