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by Jitesh Doshi || June 10th, 2017

Presentation: Rich Web Applications with ReactJS and Drupal 8

I gave a presentation on how to use Drupal 8 with ReactJS at Drupal GovCon in Washington, DC. The slides can be found HERE. Source code for the demo project can be found HERE!
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by Troy Kearney || April 11th, 2017

Building a Non-Trivial React App

Overview: Why React? Setting up a React project environment Basics of React Building and nesting components API and AJAX requests Adding Twitter Bootstrap for styling Why React? For this tutorial we are going to build a simple React application that will allow us to search for an artist on Spotify...
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by Troy Kearney || March 31st, 2017

Creating an Express.js Environment with Webpack, React, and Babel Configurations

Overview Introduction Prerequisites Setting up Express Adding Babel to the mix Adding Webpack configurations Bringing in React Introduction There are a two main different ways one could set up an environment for a React project; using create-react-app (which takes care of just about everything for you), or creating your own...
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by Troy Kearney || March 28th, 2017

Creating a React Application with Headless Drupal 8

For this tutorial I will go over how to setup a Drupal 8 site with RESTful services as well as setting up a simple React application which will retrieve a list of Articles and allow for the creation of articles for logged in users with the proper credentials. Before working with React we will need to configure Drupal to provide us with some RESTful services.
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by Revanth Datla || December 5th, 2016

Upgrading from Drupal 6

When Drupal 6 was released in 2008, it was major accomplishment of Drupal's Open Source community. It really established Drupal as the leading CMS platform with nearly unlimited extensibility. And the Drupal ecosystem flourished with thousands of contributed Open Source modules and themes. But that was almost a decade ago...
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by Jitesh Doshi || October 22nd, 2016

Drupal pre-reqs: What you need to know before you start learning Drupal

I gave a presentation on Drupal pre-reqs: What you need to know before you start learning Drupal at DrupalCamp Atlanta on October 22nd, 2016. See below for the abstract of the presentation, and all the resources, including the slides and screencast videos. Abstract Our business (SpinSpire) depends on training students...
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