Posted by tyler.frankenstein on January 1, 2014 at 4:15am

What is jDrupal?

A JavaScript Library and API for Drupal REST.

What is jDrupal used for?

Drupal Application Development.

What kind of apps?

A variety of application architectures, including...

  • Mobile Applications (Android, iOS, etc)
  • Web Applications
  • Headless Drupal / Decoupled Drupal
  • PhoneGap (Cordova)
  • Drupal Frontend

Drupal REST Tools

  • Connect
  • User Login / Logout & Account Load
  • Create, Retrieve, Update & Delete Nodes
  • Views Integration

jDrupal...

  • solves many common development needs for Drupal based applications.
  • provides a familiar Drupal coding experience and syntax for developers.
  • runs alongside any frontend client side framework, or with no framework at all.
  • utilizes JavaScript prototypes and promises.

Since jDrupal has no dependencies and is written in pure JavaScript, it can be used in a wide variety of architectures and frameworks. Just include it in the of your app's index.html file:




Quick Examples

See more examples
// Connect to Drupal and say hello to the current user.
jDrupal.connect().then(function() {
var user = jDrupal.currentUser();
var msg = user.isAuthenticated() ?
'Hello ' + user.getAccountName() : 'Hello World';
alert(msg);
});
// Load a node and display the title.
jDrupal.nodeLoad(123).then(function(node) {
alert(node.getTitle());
});
// Login and show the user their id.
jDrupal.userLogin('bob', 'secret').then(function() {
alert(jDrupal.currentUser().id());
});
// Get results from a view and print the node ids to the console.
jDrupal.viewsLoad('my-view-url').then(function(view) {
var results = view.getResults();
for (var i = 0; i < results.length; i ++) {
var node = new jDrupal.Node(results[i]);
console.log('node id: ' + node.id());
}
});

Drupal Render Element

Learn more about jDrupal on the Drupal front end
$element = array(
'#markup' => '

Loading...

',
'#attached' => array(
'library' => array(
'jdrupal/jdrupal',
'example/app'
)
)
);

Drupal 7

jDrupal doesn't need its own module in D7, instead refer to the jDrupal 7 docs for more info.

JavaScript Library

https://github.com/signalpoint/jDrupal

Getting Started

jDrupal is best friends with DrupalGap, the open source application development kit for Drupal websites.

Short name
jdrupal