Favish Inc. – App Options
Favish Inc.
Presented by Michael Favia and Dane Macaulay
Drupal as a Foundation
Desktop Erosion and the Rise of Mobile
Users are increasingly turning to mobile devices to engage online and youre getting left out even though you’ve developed a responsive web presence like you were told.
Responsive Web
Good for incidental browsing not persistent consumption or engagement
Data Portability
- Drupal Services to the rescue
- Provides RESTful Endpoint (GET, PUT, DELETE) for common drupal entities like (user, nodes, taxonomy terms, views)
- Custom endpoints for complicated needs.
App Options
App
Utilize device features (Geolocation, Compass, Camera, Contacts, Notifications)
Native (iOS, Android)
- Pros: Performant (memory and GPU), full api access
- Cons: Expensive to develop and divergent development, uncertain future
Hybrid Native (e.g. Titanium)
- Pros: Use Familiar Languages with a performance bump due to dynamic compiled code, Native UI
- Cons: Native UI, cost, licensing
Cross Platform
- Pros: Familiar Languages
- Cons: Lowest common denominator featureset, performance
Phonegap/Cordova
- JS bindings
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Web App
- RequireJS
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Backbone
- LayoutManager
- backbone-fetch-cache
- Underscore
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jQuery
- jQuery UI
Toolsets
- Node and npm
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- Bower - Analog drush dl
- Yo - Analog drush site-install
- Grunt - Analog drush everything else, Compass, Apache
Walkthrough
- Filesystem
- Demonstrate grunt
- Sass edit and auto refresh
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
-Phil Karlton + Martin Fowler