React & Redux in Drupal 8 the Easy Way

This session will show a practical approach to progressively decoupling Drupal by using a scaffolding module (https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/kemanewright/3096257) which cuts down on the complexity of setting up and integrating Drupal with React through a custom block or controller.  This will not be a conceptual discussion, but instead, a pragmatic walk-through intended to make progressive decoupling work without creating a maintenance nightmare.

This session will be useful for developers approaching decoupling from either direction, Drupal or React, who may not know much about the opposite technology.  The scaffolding module will lower the barrier for either type of developer to build a decoupled component. We will introduce the module and its setup. Then we will cover the build steps for developing a React app including how Redux (built into the scaffolding module) can help manage data and states within React. We will briefly cover building a view to retrieve data from Drupal and show how to consume the data with the React app.  In the end, we will have a working React app module. The goal of this session is to enable anyone to do the same.