Chapter Goal: To give context to the reader about the general use of Drupal
No of pages 30-32
Sub –Topics Drupal use in industry, Managing Reality vs. Expectations
1. Drupal use in industry mainly as a sole content management system
2. Managing Reality vs. Expectations with context of creating user experience
3. Separation of concerns – explaining using examples and diagram
4. 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 design
Chapter Goal: To enlighten user with use of decoupled design of web applications.
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1. How it Renders Symmetry to organizational IT goals
2. How Your own platform... organization becomes Information – “rich”
3. A gradual step away from legacy.
Chapter 3: Examples and more assertive on decoupled design
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1. Examples of exception cases -
2. I would be considering examples of a global platform in an organization
3. A more user interaction intensive example with dynamic content
Chapter 4: Conclusive and helpful hints/tips…sample code
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1. Summary
2. Conclusion
3. Tips
4. Hint of next book
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.
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