I come from the land of CouchDB, Sails.js, and Phreeze. A land where spinning up a RESTful API is but a few commands on the command line. I'm hoping that with a reproducible recipe and a "Hello World" Example, Drupal will prove that it too can kick butt in the modern world. I'm coming to DrupalCon LA this week, flying in Tuesday night. I'll be hanging around the sprint rooms on Wednesday and Thursday trying to come up with a recipe that might go something like...
> composer global require drush/drush:dev-master
> drush quick-drupal --core=drupal-8.0.x
> drush en rest
> drush runserver
> drush entity-create blog
> drush field-create blog title,text,text_textfield body,text,text_textfield
> curl -XPOST http://admin:password@127.0.0.1:8080/api/blog -d '{"title": "First post", "body":"Lipsum."}'
{"id": 1, "title": "First post", "body":"Lipsum."}
> curl -XGET http://admin:password@127.0.0.1:8080/api/blog/1
{"id": 1, "title": "First post", "body":"Lipsum."}WIP Gist of this here -> https://gist.github.com/rjsteinert/9ade7759cf1535ec7467
If I'm successful in getting a reproducible recipe together, I'll then build a boilerplate Backbone.js App that communicates with the resulting API. Does anyone want to join me in this mission? I have little experience with Drupal 8 so this will be a learning experience for me.
I hope to see you there! If you are having trouble finding me, shoot me an email at rjsteinert@isovera.com.
\\ R.J. Steinert
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Target documentation to whip into shape
rest module page -> https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/rest
Recipe GIST
A recipe gist. WIP https://gist.github.com/rjsteinert/9ade7759cf1535ec7467
TodoMVC in Backbone.js/D7 and Angular/D7
A tweet from Josh Koenig alerted me to a Backbone.js/D7 based TodoMCV app from infiniteluke that is based on the Angular/D7 TodoMVC app from Gizra.
Backbone -> https://github.com/infiniteluke/todo_restful
Angular -> https://github.com/Gizra/todo_restful
I suppose the next challenge is to port this to D8.
REST module code examples added to documentation
Drupal 8 + core rest module + jQuery code examples added to REST module documentation: https://www.drupal.org/node/2405657