Issue 314 - November, 2nd 2017

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Articles

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Dries Buytaert discusses how the Acquia labs team built an augmented reality application using Drupal and other tools.

"The JSON API module is becoming wildly popular for in Drupal 8 as an out of the box way to provide an API server. Why? Because it implements the {json:api} specification. It’s still a RESTful interface, but the specification just helps bring an open standard for how data should be represented and requests should be constructed. The JSON API module exposes collection routes, which allows retrieving multiple resources in a single request."

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Firewise USA™'s paper application process existed for 15 years but, in 2016, the Firewise team decided to bring the process online. They chose to build this process on top of Drupal 8. Join us to discuss the challenges and rewards of bringing a paper process online as a Drupal 8 web app.

Kalamuna's Derek DeRaps shows us how to use dev projects with Composer.

Projects

Mike Pirog tells the story of the Kalabox local hosting project and the new project that replaces it named Lando.

Releases

Video

In this week's Mediacurrent Friday 5 yours truly shares some tips for Git users.

Podcasts