DrupalEasy Podcast 171 - BoF Roadshow (Preston So - Front-end Decoupling)

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Preston So, Development Manager, Acquia Labs, front-end developer extrodinaire, speaker of way too many languages joins Mike and Anna to talk about the decoupling Drupal's front-end and the healthy discussion surrounding it. News stories covered include DrupalCon Asia, Community Keynotes, and Drupal Association Board of Directors voting.

Interview

http://www.prestonsodesign.com
Presentation: Decoupled Drupal and the Front-end.
Original issue post: [META] Supersede Backbone in core admin UIs with a new client-side framework by Preston So.
[policy, no patch] Require Node.js for Drupal 9 core and rewrite some of Drupal's UI code from PHP to JS.
Investigate where and how a frontend framework could be used.
[META] Dramatically improve Drupal-provided user interactions through perceived performance boosts and optimistic feedback.
Decapitating Drupal - blog post by Mark Ferree.
Drupal gets a feature request out of the blue - blog post by Théodore Biadala.
Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework? - blog post by Dries Buytaert.
Does Drupal need a client-side framework in core? - blog post by Peter Droogmans.
A Front-end JavaScript Framework in Drupal Core? - podcast from Lullabot.
Should Drupal add (another) JS framework into core? Not in the name of UX. - blog post by Lewis Nyman.
Turning Drupal outside-in - blog post by Dries Buytaert.

DrupalEasy News

The next session of the 12-week Drupal Career Online course starts in March, 2016 - visit DrupalEasy.com/dco for all the details.

Three Stories

DrupalCon Asia: Back from the Future - blog post by Holly Ross.
Drupal 8.0.4, 8.0.5, and 8.1.0-beta1 released.
Vote for your Community Keynote - voting ends March 18, 2016.