Building an application with Angular as the frontend and Joomla APIs as the backend.

1. Angular Frontends
with Joomla Backend
Joomla User Group London - 21 May 2019

2. ● Started in 2009
● Extensions
● Custom Software Development
● Team of over 50 developers,
designers and architects

3. Parth Lawate
@parthlawate
parth@tekditechnologies.com
● CEO, Techjoomla & Tekdi
Technologies
● Co Founder, JUG Pune
● Organiser Joomla Day India
● Volunteers on the Joomla
Marketing team
Joomla Freak, Book Mad, Trekking & Outdoor Guy, Promote Linux
in my sleep,Cook, Entrepreneur

4. Ashwin Date
@coolbung
ashwin@tekditechnologies.com
● CTO, Techjoomla & Tekdi
Technologies
● Co Founder, JUG Pune
● Organiser Joomla Day India
FOSS promoter - Blogger - Fedora user - Co founder, Tekdi
Technologies & Techjoomla

5. Key Products
Shika e-Learning system for Joomla that supports host of content types -
documents, videos, SCORM, quizzes, exercises and feedback. Also supports
e-commerce / paid courses.
JTicketing Event booking system supporting paid events and multiple ticket
types. Can integrate with Adobe Connect for online events. Use it with the
native events manager or with JEvents, Easysocial or Jomsocial events.
JGive Create campaigns for accepting donations for causes, or set it up in an
investment mode like Kickstarter to put up projects and accept micro-
investments.

6. com_api REST API toolkit for Joomla 3.x. This extension allows creating JSON API endpoints for
Joomla resources
TJ Reports is an extension that allows you to easily build reports for your extensions
TJ Dashboard is a great way to build Dashboards for your Joomla Applications
UCM Content Manager that allows creating multiple “content Types”, add fields.
Advanced Search allows indexing data from any extension into a search database like Algolia,
SOLR, Elasticsearch
TJ Notifications is a unified communication tool that allows managing email templates for different
media - email, SMS, push
TJ Queue Is a generic job queue / message queue that has MySQL and Amazon SQS adaptors
Open Source Product Stack

7. Why another
frontend ?

8. Joomla is PHP + HTML
Developers want to work in a more “modern stack”
What happens to those who have already invested in learning Joomla ?

9. Joomla Backend
Uses com_api as the API framework
Several core plugins already built
3rd party extensions can write plugins to add more endpoints
Supports JSON, JSONP and XML
Authentication with API Tokens / JWT
Auto login plugin to login to Joomla using API Token
User Impersonation

10. What’s available
Joomla user with social login (Uses JFB Connect)
Articles and Categories
Easysocial (Users, Pages, Groups, Events, Newsfeed)
Easyblog (Reading, searching and writing blogs)
JTicketing
Shika
TJ Reports via API

11. Angular
No need to reinvent the UI
Large ecosystem with plenty of modules
JavaScript - The cool thing everyone wants to get into

12. Demo Anyone ?

13. Osianama
Asia’s largest Auction House
Running on Angular + Joomla for over 2 years now
Joomla menus, Zoo, Advanced Search
Algolia
www.osianama.com

14. User + Articles
Articles - List, search, filter, read article
User - Username / password login, Social login
https://github.com/tekdi/ngtek-joomla/tree/demo

15. Thank You !