Update drupal-ionic for Drupal 8

[jameswilson]

Very cool project!

D8 has built in REST API using HAL. Do you have any plans to update this to work with D8?

[flexgrip]

I'd be interesting in forking or a redux using ionic and D8.

[kevinblanco]

I'll get started with that now that Drupal8 is officially released!

[flexgrip]

Want some help? I was thinking about rolling the Drupal backend into docker

[scotthooker]

Ionic 2 might also be a good fit. @flexgrip - Drupal 8 docker also sounds like a good idea https://github.com/mglaman/platform-docker may be a good fit as an example.

[kevinblanco]

Ionic2 is in beta as Angular2 is still in beta as well, I'm worried that if we use NG2/Ionic2 and then stuff changes a lot it will break a lot our build, what do you think?

About the docker that sounds great! You could create the backend stuff @flexgrip

[flexgrip]

I think you're right. It looks like, for right now, ionic 2 cli works with existing angular/ionic 1 apps. Maybe it's best to continue with ionic 1 and Drupal 7, but then branch ionic 2 with D8.

For my purposes, I've found out a lot of the modules I need in D8 are not ready. Stripe subscription stuff, etc.

However, I'm going try and muddle through. So yes, I'll whip up a docker build of D8 that's made to work with your project out of the box.

[flexgrip]

Sound good?

[flexgrip]

Actually, I'm going to create a D7 companion for this in docker as well. Both will be hosted on the registry :)

[kevinblanco]

@flexgrip sounds perfect. Let me know about the D7 services and endpoints, maybe you could setup an API doc wherever you wish for me to integrate into ionic. This ionic repo is using an old version of ionic so I will work on updating it and improve it. We could setup a gitter conversation maybe
Any help is well received from other contributors.

[kevinblanco]

What do you guys think about having a yeoman generator for drupal-ionic ?

[flexgrip]

Well, I don't know. I have some not so liberal views on the current JS trends. I'd be hesitant to make any project too dependent on all the js stuff.

However, yeoman seems to be ok. I figured you'd eventually make it into a 3rd party installable npm package. But that's probably too deep.

[kevinblanco]

I think that an NPM package that installs or generate a new project it's a good way to go, maybe way more complicated than a yeoman generator, but more profesional. I want something like 'drupal-ionic generate projectName` and that will generate the ionic app with our services n stuff

[Boby]

I think this is already not valid for the current d8 version?