After completing the interview process, a few interns were selected to be a part of Techshala Batch 1 summer internship. Valuebound moves with the pace of scenario in the country, and hence a year ago we had declared to go 100% remote. Like all our employees, the interns are working remotely due to the pandemic.
As our Techshala interns are about to graduate after three months of internship, we take pride in explaining the lessons they’ve put to use in recently created digital experience for one of the clients.
Creating dynamic web experience with Angular & Drupal
Veterans web developers call it a perfect duo. When used in unison, Angular and Drupal can help in creating enriching and dynamic web experience. It’s a match that becomes one of the finest web development strategies. The cloud of digital possibilities has burst and digitalization is not an elitist concept. Democratization of technology has enabled businesses to adapt to digitalization seamlessly.
While Drupal has already proved its prowess as one of the best CMS frameworks, Angular needs a little credit here. To explain the headless architecture that our interns built for this client, let’s see a case study.
The headless architecture: Integrating Drupal 8 with Angular 12
Drupal comes as one of the finest CMS for managing data and content. But since there has been an increase in channel numbers, front-end interactions, and API access points, there has also been a rising demand for better user experience. The older CMS structures seem insufficient to offer the ambitious digital experience that is in demand today. Headless Drupal or decoupled websites is the answer. Integration of Drupal 8 for backend and Angular 12 for frontend interactions works well in our recent case.
CASE STUDY for Nutrition Advisor Client: VB partnered with Biomarked to give impetus to their growth plans. Our hi-pot interns were given an opportunity to design and build a lifestyle app that focuses on nutrition and wellness. The client is a passionate nutritional advisor unified towards helping people recover from lifestyle disorders (Obesity, Diabetes Type 2, Fatty Liver, Thyroid).
Our interns worked on a recent project for one of the clients, a family of passionate nutritional advisors unified towards helping people recover from lifestyle disorders. The client needed a mobile friendly web app that offered customer management modules, POS front end, and interaction, among other functionalities.
Project: Interns integrated Drupal 8 and Angular 12 for creating an application that client needed. The interns implemented Angular 12 for API-based communication, developed over Drupal 8. This seemed to be the best web development strategy so as to enable clients to help with their multiple access points and channels.
Angular 12 : The Superhero of Interesting Web Development Strategy
Angular 12 is the new update from TypeScript-based web framework of Google. Our interns were proactive to pick the recently released update and use it in the latest project. Among a range of enhancements, this TypeScript-based open-source web application framework offered following benefits in developing client’s site-
Great Tooling- Angular 12 offers declarative templates which are simple to use. Our interns used template language with their own components, among the existing ones to create a great demo for the client.
High Speed and control over scalability- Using Angular 12 gives a higher control over scalability. It offers maximum speed on web platforms, which can be taken ahead with server-side rendering and web workers. Since the client has huge data requirements, Angular 12 is the right answer. The interns built data models on RxJS libraries.
Cross-platform use- The basic requirement of our client was development of a site that could be accessed across different platforms. Angular 12 enabled our interns to reuse code and abilities for creating apps for deployment targets. This app is usable across mobile web, native desktop, native mobile, and for web.
Decoupled Drupal: Headless Drupal for faster and richer UX
Drupal websites are excellent for multi-tasking functionalities. Drupal can ideally manage full-stack, i.e., front end content rendering, and back end content management. It can deliver seamless content in diverse interfaces.
Decoupled Drupal architecture for the client site allows for speed improvement since user requests need not be processed from server all the time. Technically, decoupled Drupal websites can present data in HTTP/JSON formats. Powerful frontend framework renders the data, which helps in delivering web pages faster.
Drupal-Angular Merger for a power packed performance
A basic Drupal website doesn’t need a lot of development or coding function, and Angular can help in creating rich interactive websites without complex coding. Since Angular uses HTML for user interface definitions, and directives, which helps in writing lesser codes. Angular 12 when merged with Drupal 8 created a highly interactive client site.
Taking pride in Techshala Interns
Valuebound takes pride in its future-ready interns who aren’t just college pass-outs, but professionals who can compete in the real world. Bracing their skills and leveling up with Valuebound culture, our interns at Techshala (the Valuebound University), are geared up for new competency areas. Successful web application development of the client is an impressive representation of their skills and meticulous art.
