Florida DrupalCamp 2025 to Feature Headless Drupal Development Session

Florida DrupalCamp 2025, scheduled for February 21-23 at Florida Technical College in Orlando, FL, will feature a session on "Modern Web Development with Headless Drupal—An Opinionated Guide." Led by Alexei Gorobet, Director of Engineering at JAKALA, and Jesus Manuel Olivas, CEO & Co-founder of Octahedroid, the session will take place on Saturday, February 22. It will cater to an advanced audience interested in development and performance.

The discussion will focus on how Drupal, despite its maturity and extensive ecosystem, has struggled to attract modern front-end developers due to its traditional theming system and lack of a built-in modern JavaScript stack. The session will explore a full-stack development workflow using Next.js and headless Drupal with GraphQL, showcasing how Drupal can efficiently manage content while delivering it to the frontend with enhanced performance. Topics include modern preview and visual editing capabilities, type-safe data fetching with TypeScript and GraphQL, component-based landing page building, and considerations for API caching and incremental static revalidation (ISR). The session will include live demonstrations.

Developers and Drupal enthusiasts can attend this and other sessions at Florida DrupalCamp 2025 by registering at Florida DrupalCamp Registration. More details about the session can be found on Florida DrupalCamp Session Page.