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DrupalCon Seattle 2019: Decoupled Drupal Commerce with React Native

In todays consumer applications user experience and innovation has become the most important success factor. This was also recognized by Icelands first food delivery and home cooking application as they suddenly faced heavy competition from new market entrants. With the launch of their new customer facing website built with Drupal 8 and Commerce 2, they decided to launch a native app that additionally offers interactive cooking instructions to enhance the customers home cooking experience. The app is built with react native and interacts directly with the decoupled Drupal Commerce 2 backend. The architecture for decoupling the frontend has been developed together with CommerceGuys. The App is built with React Native which allows advanced app functionality that is needed for cooking assistance. Features include: Push notifications Cooking timers Rich media cooking instructions Complex shipping solution Card on file Subscription management Flexible food package arranging In this session we will show the app, explain the core concepts, and give insights into the technical backgrounds. Attendees will learn about the current state of decoupling Drupal Commerce 2 as well as gain insights into React Native development. The session is for both developers and decision makers, that have interest in connecting native applications with Drupal and building innovative user experiences.

April 8, 2019