During this year and at several events SANDCamp, DrupalCamp LA, DrupalCon Nashville, and DrupalCamp Colorado I had a chance to talk and show how at WeKnow we approached the development of API driven applications. For all of you that use Drupal, this is something like decoupled or headless Drupal but without the Drupal part.
This article outlines weKnow’s approach and provides some insight into how we develop some web applications.
Yes, this may sound strange but whenever we need to build an application that is not content-centric, we use Symfony instead of Drupal; what are those cases? Whenever we do not require the out-of-the-box functionality that Drupal offers as content management, content revision workflow, field widgets/formatters, views, and managing data structure from the UI (content types).
Why we still use PHP.
We definitely knew the language pretty well, we have a large experience working with PHP, Drupal and Symfony and we decided to take advantage of that knowledge and use it to build API driven applications.
Why the API Platform.
This project is a REST and GraphQL framework that helps you to build modern API-driven projects. The project provides an API component that includes Symfony 4, Flex, and Doctrine ORM. It also provides you with client-side components and an Admin based on React and a Docker configuration ready to start up your project using one single command. Allowing you to take advantage of thousands of existing Symfony bundles and React components.
Wrapping up
Our developer’s expertise within different technologies has given us the advantage to provide a great time to market while developing client projects like http://myessayshelp.org. We also like sharing, if you want to see this session live, probably for the last time you should attend and join me at DrupalCamp Atlanta
Video from DrupalCon Nashville at the Youtube Drupal Association channel Here
You can find the latest version of the slides from DrupalCampLA here