Trying to understand

[ugintl]

So this is a drupal 8 site, but not a normal one. It is a react web app. correct?

How can I convert my existing drupal site or a distribution to a react app?

[spleshka]

Hi @ugintl, this is Drupal 8 on the backend + React app on the frontend. Can you explain what is your end goal trying to convert the site to a react app?

[ugintl]

My goal is to have my existing drupal 8 or 9 site as a backend and react as frontend.

Further, I want to create react native apps as well. According to my research, webview will do the trick. Anyway, that is irrelevant here I guess.

[spleshka]

Converting an existing Drupal site into Drupal + React is not a trivial thing at all. More over, it has a lot of hidden complexity. Mainly due to the fact that fully decoupled frontend loses all benefits of Drupal routing system as well as Drupal theming layer. Therefore I was asking about your objective to go a fully decoupled approach - there must be a really strong reason to do so!

[ugintl]

Thank you very much for your informative reply. What I have understood so far is that in a decoupled frontend, everything will happen in real time. Second reason is learning.

From your answer, I can derive the it is a bad idea.

[spleshka]

• Everything will happen in the real time - well, from now on it depends on your implementation of the frontend app
• If you want to learn, better create some small Hello World app and play with it. Converting the whole website just for learning reasons will be very time consuming

[ugintl]

What do you say about converting the website to react mobile app using react native webview?