DrupalCon New Orleans 2016: JSON Powered Forms in Drupal

Developers hate dealing with forms. Not only do they have to concern themselves with building and managing the form and its elements, but they also must worry about how the form is submitted and data is handled. Ten years ago, this problem was made much easier when Drupal introduced the Form API, which finally allowed developers to dynamically render their forms using PHP. This was a time when Drupal was held responsible for delivering the HTML form to the web browser interface. It was amazing and life was good.

In this presentation, Travis Tidwell and Randall Knutson will talk about what is being called the "Next Generation of Web Forms" where the forms themselves are dynamic JavaScript renderings of JSON based schemas. This new way of form management provides the benefits of the Form API, but also allows for the complete separation between the front-end and the back-end of the application. This capability introduces new ways to share and manipulate forms in a surprising way, and offers an elegant bridge into the world of a truly “headless” Drupal.

Let's talk about it!

[ScottMorgan]

Will we be able to use form.io with Drupal 8?