Ebook: 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 Drupalreveals 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. You will: 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.;Chapter 1: Drupal Use so farChapter Goal: To give context to the reader about the general use of Drupal No of pages 30-32Sub -Topics Drupal use in industry, Managing Reality vs. Expectations1. Drupal use in industry mainly as a sole content management system2. Managing Reality vs. Expectations with context of creating user experience 3. Separation of concerns -- explaining using examples and diagram4. Monitoring and maintainability of code (this will be based on personal experience and elaborate)Chapter 2: What is headless/decoupled design and Advantages of using decoupled designChapter Goal: To enlighten user with use of decoupled design of web applications. No of pages:Sub -- Topics 1. How it Renders Symmetry to organizational IT goals2. How Your own platform... organization becomes Information -- 'rich'3. A gradual step away from legacy. Chapter 3: Examples and more assertive on decoupled designChapter Goal:No of pages:Sub -- Topics: 1. Examples of exception cases - 2. I would be considering examples of a global platform in an organization3. A more user interaction intensive example with dynamic contentChapter 4: Conclusive and helpful hints/tips...sample codeChapter Goal:No of pages:Sub -- Topics: 1. Summary2. Conclusion3. Tips4. Hint of next book.