Front-end development workflows have seen considerable innovation in recent years, with technologies like React disseminating revolutionary concepts like declarative components in JSX and more efficient document object model (DOM) diffing through Virtual DOMs. Nonetheless, while this front-end development revolution has led to significant change in the developer experiences we see in the JavaScript landscape and to even more momentum in favor of decoupled Drupal architectures in the Drupal community, it seems that many traditional CMSs have remained behind the curve when it comes to enabling true shared component ecosystems through developer experiences that focus on facilitating shared development practices across back and front end. At DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019, Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1) delivered a session entitled "Components everywhere: Bridging the gap between back end and front end" that delved into his ideal vision for enabling such shared components in Drupal's own native rendering layer. Fabian joined Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1), and me (Preston So, Editor in Chief at Tag1; Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle; and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) for a Tag1 Team Talks episode highlighting the progress other ecosystems have made in the face of this problem space...

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Wed, 07/08/2020 - 05:59