swim/mdrupal

Provides a Drupal friendly wrapper for Mithril.js's m.request function.

About

mDrupal provides a Drupal friendly wrapper for Mithril.js's m.request function. mDrupal aims to be a lite weight solution for using Mithril.js as a front end framework with Drupal. This library is less than 10kb uncompressed.

Requirements

• Mithril
• Drupal 8
• RESTful Web Services

Features

• Checks and sets the users CSRF token
• Tracks request completion status
• Provides a request queue
• Provides a request cache
• Sets the request format

Installation

For development usage download/clone and run npm install.

Usage

Require mdrupal via browserify into your project. or Download and include mdrupal.js after mithril.js in your page header, E.G.

<script src="lib/mdrupal/dist/mdrupal.js"></script>

Examples

Request node 1.

var response = md.request({
  method: 'GET',
  url: '/node/1',
  background: true
}, {
  headers: [
    {
      type: 'Content-Type',
      value: 'application/json'
    }
  ],
  format: 'json',
  redrawTimeout: 1500
});

Queue and request nodes 1, 2 and 4.

var nodes = md.queue([
  {
    method: 'GET',
    url: '/node/1',
    background: true,
    initialValue: []
  },
  {
    method: 'GET',
    url: '/node/2',
    background: true,
    initialValue: []
  },
  {
    method: 'GET',
    url: '/node/4',
    background: true,
    initialValue: []
  }
])

Please see the examples folder for more complete examples.

Roadmap

• Provide CRUD wrapper? idk.
• Provide cache outside of the request scope, e.g. not solely for multiple requests.
• Provide common render function.