Bidasoa, the delightful Drupal and React connector

Our model for building modern websites, focused on users and content, with the fastest and safest frontend, keeping up flexibility and dynamism needed on your digital activity and the most delightful connection between both sides.

The most beautiful sites, in record time and without giving up anything

What is Bidasoa?

(Delightful connection)

Biko’s answer to the real needs of Jamstack projects, successfully applied for demanding and complex situations.

A modern content management that allows separating backend and frontend, with a great user experience for managers, gaining speed, positioning, security and avoiding unnecessary future costs.

Getting started

Bidasoa is a mix of different pieces that interact together to achieve the same UX as of a traditional Drupal system. Mainly, it's a suite of Drupal modules plus a SSG recipe to make both worlds communicate seamlessly.

Drupal

A suite of modules to decouple Drupal and turn it into a static site, built by a Static Site Generator like Gatsby or Next.js. It exports data to static files (JSON, XML, etc), runs a build process on them (Gatsby, Next.js, Eleventy, Hugo, etc), and deploys the result to any hosting service (AWS S3, Netlify, etc). It also provides an instant preview system for Gatsby.

It includes several modules:

• Static Export: exports Drupal data to static files (JSON, XML, etc) using GraphQL, JSON:API, or any other resolver.
• Static Build: it uses a Static Site Generator (Gatsby, Eleventy, Hugo, etc) to build a static site
• Static Deploy: deploys the above site to any kind of hosting service (AWS S3, Netlify, etc)
• Static Preview: enables previewing content without building the whole site. There is also an instant preview system for Gatsby.

This suite is completely extensible, configurable and adaptable to multiple scenarios, but it's been extensively tested with JSON files, Gatsby and AWS S3. It allows getting the same features as Gatsby Cloud (previews, fast builds and incremental builds) but fully integrated into your Drupal installation.

All those features are achieved without using any external service: this suite of modules is not a wrapper over Gatsby Cloud, but a complete implementation of their features in a "Drupal way".

This suite of modules is the result of several years of working with decoupled Drupal and Gatsby, and all you can find here is the response to real needs in our projects. Most of them are sites with thousands of pages, so expect some features to be focused on performance and scalability.

Documentation about each module can be found inside each one's folder.

Installation

Run composer require drupal/static_suite.

Enable the following modules to get a basic working functionality with Gatsby and AWS S3:

Export

• static_suite
• static_export
• static_export_data_resolver_graphql
• static_export_output_formatter_json
• static_export_stream_wrapper_local

Build

• static_build
• static_builder_gatsby

Deploy

• static_deploy
• static_deployer_s3

Preview

• static_preview
• static_preview_gatsby_instant

SSG Recipe

Work in progress. Please refer to the preview documentation to see a glimpse of this recipe.