Talking Drupal #454 - Drupal API Client

Today we are talking about Drupal’s API Client, What it does, and
why you might need it with guest Brian Perry. We’ll also cover
Iconify Icons as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/454
Topics

Brian what is new with you!

Elevator pitch for Drupal API Client

What was Pitchburg like

Is this a normalizer for JSON API

Why is this JS framework agnostic

What is typescript and how does Drupal API Client use it

Looking at the quick start guide the second step is to create
an instance, where do you do that

Who is this module for

Will Drupal API Client be added to core

What is on the roadmap

How does this relate to Chapter Three and Next.js

What is the spin up time

How will Starshot impact this

Resources

API Client

API Client Quick Start

NPM Packages

Ideas Queue Issue - Promote API client packages to Drupal NPM
namespace

Drupal at your Fingertips

Open collective

JSON API Schema

Guests

Brian Perry - brianperry.dev brianperry
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Randy Fay - rfay
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to empower your content creators to
place icons from a massive, open source library into your
Drupal site? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Iconify Icons



Brief history

How old: created on May 22 of this year, so less than two
weeks ago, by David Galeano (gxleano) of Factorial

Versions available: 1.0.0 which supports Drupal 9.3 or
newer, right up to Drupal 11



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Security coverage

Test coverage

Documentation

Number of open issues: 2 open issues, neither of which
are bugs



Usage stats:

1 site



Module features and usage

Out of the box the module provides both a CKEditor button
for placing icons, and a new field type. It even provides a
new form element that can be used in custom forms, a render
element you can use to programmatically put an icon into
something like a custom block, and a Twig extension that can
be used to place icons in templates.

According to the project page, the Iconify icon library
includes more than 200,000 icons, though in my limited
experimentation it seems like there are some duplicates
between icon sets. Speaking of which, Iconify provides over
150 different icon sets, and in this module’s configuration
you can specify which ones you want to be available on your
site.

Placing an icon is as simple as using an autocomplete to
search the names of the icons available, and a preview is
shown for each of the matches found.

The field widget and the CKEditor button both give
content creators options for what size and color to use for
the icons. For myself I’d prefer to lock some of those
options down (for example, make that part of the field’s
display configuration instead), but I’m sure that could be
added as part of a different widget.

I can think of a few Drupal sites I’ve built where this
would have been really handy, so I’m interested to play
around with this module some more, and see how it evolves.