Decoupled Drupal

Build delightful omnichannel experiences with Decoupled Drupal.

Today’s digital experiences demand omnichannel content delivery across multiple interfaces.

Drupal 8 being API-first helps organizations build a platform they truly own and reuse for a seamless omni-channel experience. An API-first architecture delivers flexible and scalable digital experiences. Drupal acts as a content hub, that allows content to be reused enabling a seamless customer experience across all interfaces.

What is Decoupled Drupal?

Traditionally Drupal has been an excellent CMS to serve websites, but not an ideal solution for mobile, wearable or conversational interfaces those require RESTful API’s. Decoupled Drupal is a new paradigm that enables us to use Drupal CMS platform that we know and love to build omnichannel experiences like mobile application, chatbot experiences, etc.

Approaches for Decoupling

Fully Decoupled Drupal:

This involves a complete separation between Drupal’s front-end and back-end.

Progressively Decoupled Drupal:

Leverages Drupal’s rendering system along with JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular for rich user experience. Learn more about these approaches here.

Why Decoupled Drupal for your business?

Omnichannel content

‘Create Once, Publish Anywhere’ - Decoupled architecture provides freedom to content editors by allowing them to publish content over multiple user experiences seamlessly.

Decoupled Drupal uses structured content; free from markup making it exceedingly reusable than HTML. Content created once can be stored and reused in multiple ways and multiple interfaces enabling organizations to build digital experiences with a single backend.

Enhanced front-end experience

Modern JS frameworks and libraries open a wide spectrum for mobile experiences. With Decoupled Drupal, you can create the experiences you want to build with your preferred tools. Marketers are presented with unbound creativity eliminating limitations that previously existed. Javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, Node.js, VUE.js can have complete control over front-end user experience.

API-First approach

API-first approach places Drupal amidst multiple technical ecosystems simplifying the distribution of content. Developers can utilize APIs for data consumption rather than building an entire stack. An API-first approach means Drupal can transfer content and data to different channels, mobile, IOT, conversational interfaces, digital kiosks, and more.

Flexibility

A headless Drupal architecture offers your team with backend and frontend freedom and flexibility. Your team need not learn Drupal, and are free to choose the tools they love and are efficient with. Improving web experiences for applications that offer highly interactive user experience with client side rendering becomes easier.

Enhanced Performance

JS frameworks come with out of the box performance. With a separated development and template, you can scale the backend and frontend independently. Marketers are free to let their creativity reign, without running into limitations. Headless Drupal architecture allows Javascript frameworks such as React, VUE.js, Angular or Node.js to have complete control over frontend user experience.

Our Services

JAMstack (flexible static site)

JAMstack combines the ease of static sites along with the dynamicness provided by APIs.

A modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.

Gatsby (static site generator)

Gatsby is a popular static site generator that can communicate with any backend. Using Drupal as a headless CMS with Gatsby is a great way to get an enterprise-quality CMS for free, paired with a great modern development experience and all the benefits of the JAMstack, like performance, scalability, and security.

Virtual Assistant integrations

Being API-first, Drupal provides a lot of APIs out of the box. Decoupled Drupal serves as a content service exposing content to virtual assistants like Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant, and Siri seamlessly.