Decoupled Menus Initiative

Initiative proposal can be found here: #3170260.

Process and where to find it

Slack channel: #decoupled-menus-initiative (learn how to join Drupal Slack)

Meetings every Tuesday and Wednesday on Slack, with focus time at 1400 UTC (Tuesday) and 400 UTC (Wednesday).

Use cases considered

After community concertation in #3196329: [META] Use cases covered by the decoupled menus initiative the 2 use cases this initiative is working on are:

1. A menu that is global and static That is, it will not change from page to page (or screen to screen a native app for example)
2. A menu(s) that changes from page to page For example, attach "Content Moderator Shortcuts" menu to "moderator" role

Projects/Repositories

Back-end Drupal module for serving menus as JSON

• decoupled_menus

Front-end library for consuming decoupled menus [work-in-progress]

• Decoupled Menu Parser, a work-in-progress library for parsing the JSON served by a decoupled menu back end. Written in TypeScript. Will be usable in vanilla JS projects.

Original standalone JS lib

• once.js, not menu related, proved our ability to develop JS on drupal.org and publish to NPM.

Team and resources

You? Join us in #decoupled-menus-initiative!