Deeson Headless CMS Framework

This is Deeson's framework for developing headless applications.

Dependencies.

You will need Node 10 and PHP installed globally on your development machine. Assuming you are using a Mac then these can be installed with brew install node php

Code deployed to firebase will run under node version 10. To ensure compatibility when running the frontend server locally you should also use node version 10. Yyou can use a node version manager such as nvm or n to switch to version 10.15.

You will also need yarn for node and composer for PHP.

If correctly setup then both which yarn and which composer should return a file path to an executable.

Using Docker for local development.

You will need the Deeson Docker Proxy running.

You will also need to set an exported bash environment variable for USE_DOCKER which could be done in a local .env. file in the project directory or as a global variable in your ~/.bash_profile e.g.

echo "export USE_DOCKER=1" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Getting Started.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

git clone git@github.com/teamdeeson/headless-drupal
cd headless-drupal
cp .env.example .env
make

Using Docker for local development.

Executing make will download the project dependencies locally then create a Drupal and node runtime environment inside Docker containers.

The frontend is then available at: https://headless-drupal.localhost

The Drupal backend CMS is available at: https://cms.headless-drupal.localhost

Not using Docker for local development.

Executing make will create an SQLite database in your project root (local.sqlite)

The frontend is then available at: https://localhost:3000

The Drupal backend CMS is available at: https://localhost:8888

Starting every other time.

Once installed, you use the following command to start the project without installing all the dependencies:

Standards and testing.

Formatting

Eslint and Prettier have been added to this project.

For Eslint run

make lint

Testing with Jest.

To test the project using Jest, use:

make test

Deployment.

This project uses firebase for deployments.

To deploy to firebase run

firebase deploy

Drupal CLI with Drush.

The Drush command line tool is available for querying all the Drupal environments. This is done using Drush aliases (the @ bit in any Drush command). The aliases available are:

• @local - your local Drupal.
• @dev - the development installation of Drupal.
• @test - the pre-production (test) version of Drupal.
• @prod - the production version of Drupal.

To see the status of an environment you can use, for example, ./vendor/bin/drush @local status.

As this is a lot of typing, it's recommended you create an alias for drush in your .bashrc file, e.g. alias drush=./vendor/bin/drush

To see a list of all Drush commands you can use drush @local list and to see more details about a specific command you can use drush @local help command

Note, to access environments other than your own will require SSH access to the servers they are hosted on.

Logging in.

To login to Drupal as the administrator you can use drush @local uli

Database dump.

To retrieve a database from a Drupal environment you can use drush @local sql-dump > db.sql

To then import that database you can use pv db.sql | drush @local sql-cli (you may need to install the pv cli tool or use cat instead)

Database access.

You can get command line access to the database on any environment using drush @local sql-cli. Locally this is sqlite, on the servers this will be mysql.

Built with.

• React
• ContentaCMS
• Drush

Authors

• Deeson