Here's a catalog of responses from this question on Twitter: https://twitter.com/webchick/status/487584625812705282
I seem to recall there are sites out there using "Headless #Drupal" (custom front-end, Drupal = content store) in D7 already. Any pointers?
Feel free to add your own sites/resources here!
Sites
- Zeyton (Drupal 8 backend, AngularJS frontend) via @zhilevan
- The Drupal Hivemind (Drupal 8 backend, AngularJS frontend)
- Rent the Runway
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Node.js + Backbone.js): / DrupalCon case study /via @vordude
- Weather.com (Angular): / DrupalCon case study /via @DamienMcKenna
- Radio France Internationale (Symfony 2): /via @slybud
- Patrick Roger (Drupal 7 + AngularJS) /via @garphy
- Nick Jr. Create /via @stevepurkiss
- Boucheron (Flash): / DrupalCon case study (2008! :)) /via @drico
- Drupical (?): /via @thefubhy
- Digital Dollhouse — and the Form Follows Fun case study of how Digital Dollhouse was built
- Packaging Digest - Inspiration for matt2000's "Knockout the Drupal themer" / slides / code
- Azri Solutions - Built using Mean IO Stack with Grunt watch for pulling the latest updates.
- Great Wolf Resorts—written in CoffeeScript using Spine framework
- Proofread Bot with a TinyMce - Wordpress frontend, Google Docs next
- EC Red Bull Salzburg (Full AngularJS in the frontend, Drupal still in the backend)
- Front End Web.Ninja, Front End web development news aggregator.
- Valuebound (Drupal 8 backend, AngularJS frontend)
Resources
- jaymallison's #NearlyHeadlessDrupal initiative: http://liveaxle.com/drupalgive /slides / audio of talk / module / theme /via @rootwork
- Headless Drupal, One form at a time
- Headless Drupal - Inline edit
- AngularJS meets Drupal - Get an idea what AngularJS is and how to combine it with Drupal
Comments
Decoupled NYCCamp 2015
The NYCCamp web architecture team is preparing next year's camp website as Drupal backend with Angular frontend (plus apps). I didn't add it to the list because they're still in progress, but wanted to start the conversation :)
More from NBCU
We've also been working on a decoupled Angular frontend on top of Drupal's REST for other projects at NBCU… more to come!
Extranet
One extranet (sorry, NDA, can't tell more) we delivered this spring is mostly headless : Angular front consuming a mix of Drupal and Drupal-proxied/authenticated resources in a Java+Hazelcast server.
Admin and a few pages still traditional Drupal, though. I think most projects will not change the default admin area anyway, for cost reasons. Or do they ?
jQuery Mobile
Any apps built with jQuery Mobile running decoupled Drupal on the backend?
Phonegap
Phonegap uses jQuery mobile.
https://www.drupal.org/project/phonegap
There's also
There's also https://gizra.github.io/elm-hedley
DrupalGap
DrupalGap 7 utilizes jQuery Mobile and can be used to be build mobile apps and web apps (aka headless / decoupled).
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalgap
DrupalGap 8 is in itself headless, and can be used with any CSS framework.