Kyle Einecker of Perficient
Video Description
Adding new block types to Layout Builder is hard… harder than it should be. You either have to deal with Custom Block types which have a fairly rigid field structure that lack composability and are tracked as config. Or there’s Inline Blocks which require creating a new Block plugin PHP class and understanding how to create a form using Form API. Neither option is particularly attractive to a Front End developer who just wants to build the next component for a site.
But what if adding a new block type for Layout Builder didn’t require knowing about fields, or config, or plugins, or Form API, or even PHP? What if a Front End developer could define the entirety of a block's data structure using JSON Schema and have it just automatically appear in Layout Builder? This what if could be a reality by stringing together a few contrib modules.
In this session, we’ll look at how combining RJSF, Components, and block plugin derivers can be used to create a FED friendly component system for Layout Builder that requires shockingly little knowledge of Drupal.
Kyle Einecker of Perficient
https://www.drupalasheville.com/2023/session/layout-builders-missing-piece-js-defined-blocks
But what if adding a new block type for Layout Builder didn’t require knowing about fields, or config, or plugins, or Form API, or even PHP? What if a Front End developer could define the entirety of a block's data structure using JSON Schema and have it just automatically appear in Layout Builder? This what if could be a reality by stringing together a few contrib modules.
In this session, we’ll look at how combining RJSF, Components, and block plugin derivers can be used to create a FED friendly component system for Layout Builder that requires shockingly little knowledge of Drupal.
Kyle Einecker of Perficient
https://www.drupalasheville.com/2023/session/layout-builders-missing-piece-js-defined-blocks