Build a Drupal-Free With 8's REST API and Javascript: DrupalCon Austin Session Notes

Drupal Theming

• Divitis
• A lot of Drupalisms all throughout the HTML
• Lots of templates to override to do simple things

A Different Approach

• AngularJS
• Need raw data for Angular. No theming, no divs, etc.
• Web Services and REST in Drupal 8 core
• Accept header: application/hal+json
• CORS module: allow pulling data from a different URL from the site you're on.
• Client Side Theme: Not a Drupal theme. Totally decoupled.

Angular

• index.html, app.js, angular.js
• ng-controller: Builds a $scope variable like $variables array in normal theme.
• Use $http service to do REST request
• Create an Angular "service" for retrieving data of a particular type
• Routing: angular-route.js
• Wildcards with $routeparams
• Can specify template files for your various routes.
• DBLogResource module: example of wrapping custom data in REST in D8