2018: The Decoupled Summer of Drupal Commerce

We’ve had several great opportunities this summer to connect with the Drupal community and share our latest work on Drupal Commerce. We’ve been able to highlight specifically our efforts to progressively decouple Drupal Commerce on Drupal 8.

Drupal Camp Asheville 2018
Ryan Szrama gave a demo on Saturday, July 14, based on the Belgrade demo store that provided an overview of Commerce Cart API Flyout. We detailed this work in our recent blog post announcing the feature.

A fully decoupled Drupal Commerce experience—including support for complex forms like checkout—is something that Commerce Guys is committed to delivering by the end of 2019. Until then, our strategy is to progressively decouple the product catalog and shopping cart to help sites scale in addition to opening new user interfaces. In Ryan’s words, “We started with the shopping cart because that’s the obvious way to help large websites avoid a common bottleneck for performance.”

Watch Ryan’s session to learn more about the Commerce Cart API project and see the demo.

Decoupled Drupal Days 2018
Next, Matt Glaman presented his talk “The road to a headless Drupal Commerce future” at Decoupled Drupal Days in NYC.

The session reviewed the development of the Commerce Cart API in greater depth. It covers our research into the RESTful Web Services and contributed JSON API projects (potentially in core soon) as future dependencies that the Cart API can adopt. Matt demonstrated even more progress on the project since Ryan’s demo, including a fully decoupled React based front-end.

This talk put the progressively decoupled Drupal Commerce Add to Cart form and shopping cart on display for the community with the expressed desire that Drupal based merchants will have an out of the box experience rivaling other major e-commerce software platforms.

Drupal Europe 2018
Matt’s session at Drupal Europe covered our latest developments in the Commerce Cart API and Flyout as part of the dedicated eCommerce track. This was an iteration of the Drupal Drupal Days session, including any improvements and additions in the time between Drupal Europe and Decoupled Drupal Days.

If you’re interested in contributing to the roadmap for decoupling Drupal Commerce, connect with Matt to learn where to get involved or how to give us feedback from your implementations.