Decoupled

Next-Drupal offers a robust technical path to decouple your Drupal site without sacrificing the daily features that editors require. While Next-Drupal has numerous benefits, many decision-makers still question, "Why should I use a decoupled front-end when Drupal works fine?"

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been delving into the “We Are” phrases on our homepage. We’ve put a lot of thought into who we are as an agency and what words and phrases best describe us. We innovate within the Drupal space, we strategize on digital content, we lead by example, we offer expertise to our clients and the Drupal community, and we do great design work.

One of the great advantages of decoupled architecture is its ability to weather spikes in web traffic. With a traditional CMS, a sudden burst of traffic could overwhelm the server and paralyze your site, including the administration interface, which may only be used by a small fraction of your users. With a headless architecture, heavy traffic on the front-end can have little to no impact to the back-end.

Why do we call ourselves “Chapter Three”? It’s often said that in a novel, the real action doesn’t start until three chapters in, with the first two used to set up the characters and the scene. We like to think of ourselves as a place where the “real action” takes place, hence the name Chapter Three. It’s a name we landed on nearly two decades ago and one that still suits us.

Remember Next-Drupal? It’s that thing we used to talk about incessantly but have been fairly quiet about in recent months. Not to worry – we haven’t lost interest. In fact, we’ve been working hard to make our Next.js-powered decoupled Drupal front-end product even better in Next-Drupal 2.0!

Last week I was in Lille, France for DrupalCon Europe 2023. DrupalCon was as illuminating and engaging as it always is, but the real highlight of t...

There’s a lot to be said for going decoupled with your website. From speed and scalability to increased security and front-end flexibility, headlessness offers solutions to most website shortcoming...

Decoupled Days is THE conference to attend if you’re at all interested in all things headless and decoupled. Now in its seventh year, this year’s conference will be held in person ...

In November of 2021, Chapter Three unveiled Next-Drupal to the world as a new way for creating front ends for the Drupal CMS. Interest in this innovative decoupled solution has continually increased amid a growing headless market, the question of the best way to host a decoupled website is still evolving.

How do we make Drupal the cool kid again?  Did you know that about 60% of Drupal sites are still on D7, even with D10 about to be released in December? There’s bee...

CSUB’s New Next.js Site Launches a New Era in Headless Performance California State University Bakersfield has an extensive continuing education program known as...

One of the questions I get asked every other week is “Does next-drupal work with GraphQL?” . Yes. Both the Next.js Drupal module and the next-drupal package work wit...

If you take a look at the pros and cons of decoupled/headless CMS, “no visual preview” is at the top of every list of 'cons'. When we set out to build

At Chapter Three, we believe that most Drupal websites could gain a performance boost by going headless. While this is how we’re planning to build future Drupal sites, we understand going all in on headless might not be feasible for existing sites. This is why we built next-drupal for progressive adoption.

On a couple of recent Next.js projects, the design called for highlighted excerpts to be displayed in the search results:

We are! DrupalCon Portland is next week, and we are excited to see you all there in person for the first time in two ...

The notion of using Drupal as an API-first CMS has been floating around the community for many years. There has been a dream to fully use Drupal as a content platform and...

Chapter Three has been working to ensure our Next-Drupal product is the best solution it can be, and so we're thrilled to announce that Chapt...

You are ready to make your Drupal site headless; what do you need to know about hosting? Hosting a decoupled Drupal site means you are using two different types of hosting technologies—on...

In some upcoming posts, we'll provide more details about the practical steps to implementing Next-Drupal. For now we present eight excellent reasons...

Ok, sounds weird, but it’s true. Imagine for a moment using Next.js as the decoupled front-end of your Drupal site. Imagine it worked well and was transparent to your content editors. Use...

Gatsby Image, along with gatsby-transformer-sharp and gatsby-plugin-sharp, is a common way to handle images in a Gatsby project.  It gives us...