In this chapter, we took on the client-side and talked about JavaScript and client-side capabilities in Drupal 8. We started with the approach we need to take when writing JavaScript in a Drupal context. You learned about behaviors, why they are important, and how to use them. We also saw how we can pass around data from the server (Drupal) to the client-side and make use of it in JavaScript.
Funnily enough, we then we switched to a no-JavaScript allowed policy for the rest of the chapter. We did this to prove how powerful the Drupal Ajax API is, in who we can perform complex server-to-client interactions even if we are not frontend developers that can write JavaScript code. And to demonstrate the API, we first looked at how simple ...
