Matt and Mike sit down with the developers who are leading the REST initiatives in Drupal 8, and discuss the current landscape, and what's on the horizon. We discuss JSON API, GraphQL, changes to Drupal core, and more.
Episode Guests
Wim Leers
Wim is one of the principle architects of the new Drupal 8 caching system, and is also the maintainer of Drupal's Big Pipe module.
Daniel Wehner
Senior Drupal Developer at Chapter Three, the most prolific contributor to Drupal 8, with his code everywhere you look.
Sebastian Siemssen
Lead developer at Amazee Labs. Maintainer of GraphQL module for Drupal. Creator of the Omega 4.x base theme.
Mateu Aguiló Bosch
Mateu Aguiló Bosch is a Lead Engineer with extensive experience in API design, Node.js development and contribution, and distributed architectures in the cloud. He loves to be under the sun.
More about MateuMentioned in this Episode
- API-First Initiative on Drupal.org
- GraphQL Specification
- JSON API Specification
- Dries' blog post, "Improving Drupal 8's API-first: JSON API and OAuth2?"
- Drupal Core Experimental Modules
- Drupal Core Ideas Queue
- Drupal.org Issue Proposing JSON API to be Included in Core
- Drupal.org Issue Proposing OAuth2 to be Included in Core