#389 Headless - Fact or Fiction

Today we are talking about Headless and if it’s really all it’s cracked up to be with Martin Anderson-Clutz.

Topics

What is headless
What started you writing the blog post
Where does headless make sense
Does headless perform better than Drupal
Are APIs always important
How does progressive decoupling work
Where does headless not make sense
Are people putting too much faith in headless
What is the future of CMSs

Resources

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

Module of the Week

with Martin Anderson-Clutz -
JSON:API Search API
Allows your headless Drupal site to also provide a search service.

Show News

One Seat Reminding! Last chance to register for Stephen Cross’s “Microcontroller Introduction with Raspberry Pi Pico” at NERD Summit on March 18.
“Think Locally, Build Globally - How Drupal is powering headless omni-channel web platforms” by John Picozzi at Florida Drupal Camp.
“Simplifying Your Admin Experience” by Martin Anderson-Clutz at Florida Drupal Camp.

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#391 Starting a Career in Drupal with Mike Anello. Recording March 14.
#392 Public Speaking with Marjorie Freeman & AmyJune Hineline. Recording March 21.
#393 Drupal & Javascript with Andy Blum. Recording March 28.
#394 Open Source in K-12 Education with Stu Keroff April 4.

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Drops of Drupal

Small Drupal tips and tricks

#001 drush pm:list

Drush, the command line utility for interfacing with Drupal, is not just helpful for clearing the cache. The PM command provides access to modules and themes. PM:LIST is helpful for getting a list of modules and themes. I find it faster and easier than accessing the Extend page from the Admin interface.

For example, to see the versions of enabled, non-core modules:

drush pm:list --no-core --status=enabled

The results will be similar to:

Package        Name                               Status    Version          

Other          CKEditor 4 (contrib) (ckeditor)    Enabled   1.0.1            
Core           Color (color)                      Enabled   1.0.3            
Administration Admin Toolbar (admin_toolbar)      Enabled   3.0.3            
CKEditor       CKEditor Anchor Link (anchor_link) Enabled   8.x-1.7          
User interface Chosen (chosen)                    Enabled   3.0.2            
User interface Chosen Field (chosen_field)        Enabled   3.0.2            
User interface Chosen Library (chosen_lib)        Enabled   3.0.2            
CKEditor       CKEditor Templ(ckeditor_templates) Enabled   8.x-1.2          
CKEditor       CKEditor Templates User ...        Enabled   8.x-1.4          
Other         Components (components)             Enabled   8.x-2.4

To get the results for one project, pipe to grep.

drush pm:list --no-core --status=enabled | grep 'chosen'

Results:

User interface    Chosen (chosen)               Enabled   3.0.2            
User interface    Chosen Field (chosen_field)   Enabled   3.0.2            
User interface    Chosen Library (chosen_lib)   Enabled   3.0.2

For drush commands you use frequently, you can add them as an alias in your shell or command/tooling in your local development environment. For example, your .bash_profile could include:

alias dpme='drush pm:list --no-core --status=enabled'

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