vinodpanicker / headless-drupal

Environment setup

- Install Vagrant
- Install Virtual Box
- Provision using the given shell scripts
- Install Node.js (Yo, Grunt, Bower, Angular Generator)
- Install PHP55
- Install Apache
- Install MySQL
- Install Ruby (Sass, Compass) use RVM

Setup VHOST

- Create a VHost for Angular and Drupal servers
- angular.dev & drupal.dev (Use Python for Client server)
- Run both the servers

Use Drush/Git to pull down latest head of Drupal 8

- drush dl drupal-8
- git clone --branch 8.0.x http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git

Use Yo to generate Angular project scaffold

- Use offical angular generator
- Use generator scaffold toolds for creating test, controllers, routes
- Add ng-animate, ng-resource

Fix CORS issue

- Add the CORS support in either index.php or .htaccess
- Mention Drupal Modules (CORS)

Enable REST modules

- Enable all the REST modules in Drupal
- Add instruction for drush en

Write API tests

- Write Test using Superagent/Jasmine
- Use Testem or Karma as runners
- Use Curl/HTTPie

Create pages for About

- Create a Basic page
- Add a URL alias

Create views for Blog

- Create a content-type
- Create a View
- Add content

Write client app

- Setup up Angular app
- Add support for hal-json
- Add styles using bootstrap/Foundation

Write End-to-End test

- Write test to check proper content is being rendered.
- Use testem or Karma

Closing remarks

- Mention the use cases
- Future posts (POSTS, Forms, etc)