DrupalCon Nashville 2018: Weather.com's Project Moonracer - Decoupled User Interfaces

This talk explores the challenges and solutions associated with decoupled Drupal architectures, specifically highlighting the experience of the weather.com team. The speaker details how traditional setups limit page configurability for site administrators and product owners, leading to a reliance on developers for dynamic configuration changes. To address these challenges, the team developed Project Moonracer, which enhances a Drupal 8-based solution by enabling direct page configuration modifications on a decoupled front end. The presentation includes a demonstration of their Page Management System UI and API layers, while discussing design considerations, data models, and the editorial interface decoupled from Drupal to improve user experience. Attendees will gain insights into API design, data modeling, and the future of editorial interfaces in a decoupled ecosystem.