Decoupling Drupal: A Decoupled Design Approach for Web Applications

Implement a headless/decoupled Drupal design to build easily maintainable web applications. This book begins by showing you CMS workflows and best practices to give you the basics you need for working with decoupled Drupal. As part of this process, Decoupling Drupal reveals the advantages of using content management systems and explains that decoupled Drupal is the answer to various problems faced in creating and maintaining enterprise applications.

Decoupling Drupal will show you how administering Drupal monolithically to design web applications can be a challenge. You’ll see how the maintainability of your application reduces exponentially over the years. In contrast, a decoupled design enables an easy handshake between the front-end and back-end applications, meaning you can implement services in a short amount of time and scale them quickly.

The final part of the book covers the impact of decoupling on functional and non-functional requirements and the use of Drupal 8 modules to address the requirements of decoupling. This involves solving the problems that occur at different stages of CMS evolution in an organization.

What You Will Learn

• Discover the principles of headless/decoupled design
• Implement Drupal in a real-time environment
• Work with the Drupal modules normally used in a decoupled design
• Use Drupal to complete back-end tasks
• Integrate a Pantheon cloud-solution for headless Drupal
• Acknowledge the use of CMS in your day-to-day IT life

Who This Book Is For

Web application designers, developers, and Drupal enthusiasts.

About the Author

Deepali Mayekar has been in the technology field for 17 years and has worked on various technologies. She is an avid reader and writer of books on technologies she has used. She is an electronics engineer from Mumbai University, Oracle certified Java programmer and has been working on providing solutions using Drupal for a few years. Her interests are in Internet of Things and she specializes in lightweight applications using separation of concerns.