"The front-end moves faster than Drupal, whether Drupal likes it or not" This reference from "The state of the Front-end" session at DrupalCon Amsterdam explains that we need different ways to retrieve content from a Drupal site for an easy integration with new front-end frameworks. This allows non-experienced front-end developers to start theming Drupal using the tools they are used to.

1. Headless Drupal
#HeadlessDrupal

2. Ruben Teijeiro @rteijeiro
Zzzz

7. DrupalHero.es
@Drupal_Heroes

8. "The front-end moves faster than Drupal,
whether Drupal likes it or not" @eatings

10. Mobile Web/Apps

11. Browserless Devices

12. Internet of Things

13. Web Projects
Architecture Evolution

14. Monolithic Application

16. Microservices

18. Why Drupal?

19. Loosely Coupled Architecture

20. Drupal 8 Front-end is
@mortendk Certified

21. I love Twig!! WTF!!WTF!!

22. Performance

23. Dynamic Page Cache
https://www.drupal.org/docu
mentation/modules/dynamic_
page_cache

24. Big Pipe

25. UX

26. Accessibility

27. Multilingual

28. Security

29. Drupal is API-First

30. Headless Drupal

31. Decoupling

32. Fully Decoupled
Vs
Progressively Decoupled

33. Decouple Front-end

36. Decouple Editorial UI

37. https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/

38. Accessible Solutions

39. https://www.drupal.org/project/alexa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-tBUdmzpo

40. Artificial Intelligence

41. Chatbots
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fb_messenger_bot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7XyB1BoDF4

42. Drupal
Initiatives

43. JSON API
Generate an API server that implements the {json:api}
specification.
https://www.drupal.org/project/jsonapi
https://www.drupal.org/project/jsonapi_extras

44. GraphQL
https://www.drupal.org/project/graphql
http://graphql.org/swapi-graphql

45. Headless Drupal
The Cake is a Lie!
@thefubhy

46. Workflow Initiative

47. Workflow Initiative
https://www.drupal.org/node/2721129

48. http://www.drupaldeploy.org

49. RELAXed Web Services
https://www.drupal.org/project/relaxed

50. @dickolsson
I’m faster than
Drupal!

51. @prestonso
https://github.com/acquia/waterwheel.js
https://github.com/acquia/waterwheel.swift

52. Market Trends

53. Content Repositories
https://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-content-hubvid

54. API-first CMS
https://www.contentful.com

55. Directus
https://getdirectus.com
Directus is an API-driven content management framework
for custom databases. It decouples content for use in apps,
websites, or any other data-driven projects.

56. Demos?

57. Resources
https://github.com/RESTful-Drupal/restful
https://github.com/amitaibu/restful-blessed
https://groups.drupal.org/headless-drupal
https://github.com/Gizra/generator-hedley
http://blog.loadimpact.com/blog/first-steps-with-crud-using-backbone-
js-and-drupal-8/
http://blog.loadimpact.com/blog/headless-drupal-8-retrieving-content-
using-backbone-js/

58. Want to contribute?
How to POST a comment and other relational entities
Add special handling for collections in REST
Support ConfigEntity via REST
[meta] REST et al
File needs CRUD permissions to make REST work on entity/file/{id}
Serialize file content (base64) to support REST GET/POST/PATCH on file entity

59. Join the Code Sprints!!

60. Questions?
?

61. Thanks!