App-Development

Build Feature-Rich Apps with a Robust Backend Solution using Drupal

omarlopesino — Mon, 22 May 2023 20:13:44 +0000

Build Feature-Rich Apps with a Robust Backend Solution using Drupal

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

omarlopesino Mon, 05/22/2023 - 22:13

Time Slot

Sat 11:00am to 11:45am (7/22/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

All Attendees

Session Category

Backend Development

In this session we will see:

I. Introduction

- Brief overview of Drupal as a CMS and its potential as an iOS app backend

- Presentation outline and objectives

II. In-App Purchases: Apple Store Server Notifications

- Understanding in-app purchases: one-off and recurrent

- Introduction to the Apple Store Server Notifications (ASSN) contrib module

- Steps to set up ASSN and handle notifications

III. Apple Receipt Validation

- Importance of validating in-app purchase receipts

- Process and steps of receipt validation using Drupal

- Common challenges and best practices for receipt validation integration

IV. REST API Integration: Drupal and iOS

- Basics of REST and JSON API modules in Drupal

- Building a custom REST API with Drupal's REST module

- Adapting JSON API for iOS app requirements

- Security, data privacy, and handling complex data structures

V. Best Practices for Developing iOS Apps with Drupal Backend

- Implementing decoupled or headless architecture

- Ensuring scalability and performance of the Drupal backend

- Keeping Drupal and contributed modules updated

VI Conclusion

- Recap of key insights and takeaways

- Encouragement to explore Drupal in iOS app development

- Open floor for questions and discussion on specific implementation challenges

Speaker(s)

Omar Lopesino

Senior Backend Developer at Metadrop

Speaker biography

Omar Lopesino

Senior backend developer

Session Keywords

App-Development

Back End Development

New module: Search API decoupled

breidert — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:59:20 +0000

New module: Search API decoupled

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

breidert Mon, 05/15/2023 - 16:59

Time Slot

Thu 10:45am to 11:30am (7/20/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

Intermediate

Session Category

Backend Development

Search API is a powerful module family. Especially, if you work with different search backends such as Solr, Elastic, OpenSearch, etc. and you want to create unified solutions for all of them.

However, it is not easy to build decoupled searches using Search API.

Therefore we have created a new module called search_api_decoupled, that exposes all necessary configurations to initialise a decoupled search application (layout, facets, search result rendering, autocomplete, etc.) and an API endpoint to query the search index.

The module exposes an UI to control the display of the search block or search page, including placement of elements like search input, pagination, various facets and search summary. For placement the layout module from core is used. Facets are created by the existing facets module. For autocomplete search_api_autocomplete is used.

The search endpoint was designed similar to existing search solutions, foremost Elasticsearch helper, and is very easy to consume.

Architecturally, the search relies only on data from the search index, and does not load nor render entities in Drupal. This makes searching lightning fast and overcomes caching challenges that might occur with existing display solutions for Search API.

For showcasing we have created a search app. However, this search app is not part of the new module, because it is highly opinionated and coupled to our frontend stack (React, Webcomponents, Tailwind). However, we would like to add a demo app or starter kit in a sub-module, that others can use to build their own search apps.

Speaker(s)

Artem Dmitriiev

Backend developer at 1xINTERNET

Christoph Breidert

1xINTERNET

Speaker biography

Artem Dmitriiev, Senior Lead Developer 1xINTERNET

Professional:

Senior Lead Developer 1xINTERNET
20+ years experience in software industry

Drupal:

Contributor
Frequent speaker at conferences

Education:

Master degree in Mathematics

Dr. Christoph Breidert, Co-Founder / MD 1xINTERNET

Professional:

Co-Founder / MD 1xINTERNET
20+ years experience in software industry

Drupal:

Contributor
Frequent speaker at conferences

Education:

Master degree in Engineering
PhD in Computer Science

Session Keywords

Back End Development

App-Development

Godot <3 Drupal

rteijeiro — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:48:16 +0000

Godot <3 Drupal

Room

HS13 (2nd floor)

rteijeiro Sat, 04/08/2023 - 19:48

Time Slot

Fri 4:15pm to 5:00pm (7/21/23)

Session length

Short session - 25min, including Q&A

Audience

All Attendees

Session Category

Innovation & The future

This presentation will introduce different scenarios where a game development engine like Godot can easily be integrated with a content management system to provide diverse digital experiences. You will learn how to create simple solutions like a video game scoreboard to complex elements like an inventory for your games. You will be able to improve your digital storytelling adding dynamic dialogs or player avatars. Build the next-generation e-learning or e-commerce experience thanks to Extended Reality.

Speaker(s)

Ruben Teijeiro

Drupal Hero at Lulu Game Studio

Speaker biography

Ruben Teijeiro

Active contributor of the Drupal Community with more than 12 years experience working in different Drupal projects for the public and private sector. Speaker in more than 25 countries, organiser of Drupal events in 5 countries and volunteer in more than 30 events. Co-founder of Youpal Group, an ICT consultancy company from Sweden and Lulu Game Studio, a game development company from Spain.

Session Keywords

Should migrate be our goto for migrations?

Curried — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:11:46 +0000

Should migrate be our goto for migrations?

Room

HS4 (Ground level)

Curried Mon, 04/03/2023 - 11:11

Time Slot

Thu 2:00pm to 2:45pm (7/20/23)

Session length

Long session - 45min, including Q&A

Audience

All Attendees

Session Category

Backend Development

It seems to be considered a worthwhile APP redesign, it must recover data from the old platform. Sometimes it is as simple as saying "A goes into A, B goes into B". Other times it is "A goes into A if X happens, but if Y happens it goes into B. B goes into C but only if Z happens".

On a daily basis, I have not migrated much data, but projects in which those processes took place were not the easiest ones. In order to further develop, I will provide you with two experiences.

For my first experience, we had almost 150 domains to migrate from a Drupal 7 to a Drupal 8 and around 20000 nodes and 3000 blocks. Following the feature’s needs and the time given, we chose Micro Site to replace Domains and all the blocks were transformed into paragraphs. What this means is that we were in a big case of “A goes into A if X happens, but if Y happens it goes into B. B goes into C but only if Z happens”. Almost every content had a condition for it to be migrated in one way or another.

As for my second experience, we migrated a Spring application to Drupal. It is of the utmost importance to know that Spring uses Neo4J, a graph type database, and our Drupal was using PostgreSQL. For this second use case, we chose to use Open Social and Groups. This time, I knew what we should do and what we should not do. But no one really knew neither what had already been implemented nor how it worked.

In the end and in both cases, I discovered that usually the problems that occur during the process are the same. For that, the following questions come to my mind:

When must we be concerned about migration mapping? In what stage of the project? Do we know the old platform? Do we have access to it? Can we and should we use Migrate?

I encountered projects in which those questions or their possible answers came too late several times.

I would like to end this talk by exposing the conclusions that I have recollected not only from my work experience, but also from my field colleagues. For example: how to try to integrate the migration as soon as possible or how to try to simplify your life with Migrate if the data is too complex.

I hope my experience will bring a new point of view to what you already know and that it can be a moment of sharing!

Speaker(s)

Nerea Enrique

ekino

Speaker biography

PHP engineer since 2018. Loves PHP, PHP events, hiking and especially art..

Session Keywords

App-Development

Back End Development

PHP