Off with Their Heads

Decouple the front-end from your Drupal or WordPress CMS

It’s time to decapitate your CMS and go headless. The benefits of decoupling a site’s presentation (or “head”) from its content management are dramatic: faster load times, cleaner content types, better security, and the opportunity to create stunning user interfaces.

CMS Setup Instructions

We will be hosting the CMS portions of our sites through Pantheon. Sign up for a free account at Pantheon.io and then follow the instructions below to get started.

• Drupal Setup Instructions
• WordPress Setup Instructions

Front End Build Setup

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# install dependencies
$ npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:3000
$ npm run dev

production

# build for production and launch server
$ npm run build
$ npm start

# OR generate static project
$ npm run generate

For detailed explanation on how things work, checkout Nuxt.js docs.

Project Data Reference

For this example project, we are normalizing the data that is being requested from Drupal and WordPress in order to make the front-end development standardized for all participants regardless of their platform choice. In your application's store/index.js there will be a staff key which will be an array of objects with the following schema:

{
	bio: <String>, // will contain HTML markup
	department: <String>,
	email: <String>,
	first_name: <String>,
	headshot: <String>, // url to remote resource
	id: <Number>,
	job_title: <String>,
	last_name: <String>,
	linkedin: <String>,
	phone: <String>,
	quote: <String>,
	slug: <String>
}