Hi. I’m a lead developer in charge of designing the build for version 2.0 of our startup SaaS website which is currently a traditional Drupal 7 site. I’m just looking for some peer advice that I am headed down an ok path now the product has grown & changed. tl;dr; 1) Is building a decoupled/headless Drupal 10 site with a JavaScript framework a dumb idea? 2) Should I look to a different headless CMS? 3) React or Vue.js or (other) in 2022?
Our requirements for our new site include
- White labeling / multisite spawning (will need separate databases for each)
- Complex permissions and several user roles
- Robust security
- Mobile app capability for iOS (for now - Android in the future)
- Multilingual capability
- Easy user management/creation by non-devs
- Reporting capabilities
- Some basic “marketing” pages (but this could be separate from the web app I suppose)
- A large amount of hosted video/image assets on AWS or similar
- Weekly/daily CRON jobs to send out emails & reports
Being that I am experienced in Drupal & PHP, my thought was to build a headless site with a Vue.js or React as the front end in Drupal 10. I've only got minimal experience in either JS framework so I'm not sure which I should choose to skill up. Does this seem reasonable or am I barking up the wrong tree?
You can use: - craftcms for headless or not (paid version) - contentful cms - prismic - storyblok