Sector(s)

Team Members

fago, oliver_berndt, jjchinquist, sinduri, arthur_lorenz, alex_ieremia, hari.pango, turtlbbx, useernamee, petar_basic, roderik, olenalena, ciprian.stavovei

Visit the site

Visit the site

Organizations Involved

Community contributions

drunomics contributes a significant amount of time back to the community, from starting and maintaining modules, to creating issues and providing patches. 

Back to top

Maintainership of: 

Back to top

Contribution to:

Back to top

mossbo - The managed headless CMS, powered by Drupal, with a modern Nuxt frontend, AI-powered tools, and ISO-certified European hosting. mossbo delivers fast, exceptional experiences paired with enterprise-grade security and accessibility.

Built on Lupus Decoupled Drupal, mossbo provides a low-code environment where developers and content teams work efficiently together. The platform includes the mossbo Hub for centralized management and integration with the upcoming Drupal Canvas that will empower non-technical users to create professional sites through pre-configured components, and integrated AI tools that streamline editorial workflows.

As a fully-managed service, mossbo handles infrastructure, updates, and GDPR compliance. Organizations get rapid deployment capabilities while maintaining ownership of their digital ecosystem.

Built on the open source project: https://www.drupal.org/project/lupus_decoupled

Describe the project (goals, requirements and outcome)
Back to top

Goals:

  • Build a fully-managed solution for Drupal-based decoupled applications meeting security and compliance requirements
  • Create a SaaS, cost-predictable solution for clients
  • Enable a powerful and intuitive page building experience for editors
  • Support state-of-the-art SEO techniques
  • Compliance with EU accessibility and GDPR laws
  • Develop a standardized backend eliminating project-specific code requirements for consistency
  • Enable feature deployment by frontend developers and site managers without backend involvement to reduce workload and save project costs
  • Create configuration-driven workflows supporting parallel development without merge conflicts for project efficiency to reduce workload and save project costs
  • Implement quality assurance processes with customer-specific testing requirements to ensure quality and project stability.
  • Integrate AI tools to reduce editorial workload and accelerate content creation
Back to top

Requirements:

  • ISO-certified European hosting with automated infrastructure management
  • European-hosted AI models for automated alt-text generation, SEO metadata, content summarization, and multilingual translation
  • Scalable
  • High-performance
  • Secure
  • A search server for feature-rich search functionality
  • An EU GDPR compliant analytics for web tracking
  • An EU GDPR compliant cookie banner and asset loading management
  • Low-code solution to enable frontend developers to configure API output without custom code
  • A configuration preview workflow for quality assurance purposes
  • Fast time-to-market
Back to top

Outcomes:

  • Component-oriented decoupled architecture built on Lupus Decoupled Drupal leveraging native Drupal capabilities
  • Nuxt / Vue.js frontend with customizable components that meet WCAG accessibility standards
  • Integrated OpenSearch server
  • Implemented Plausible Analytics
  • Pre-configured CDN with cache-tag invalidation and web application firewall
  • Custom Elements UI module enabling frontend developers to configure API output without custom code
  • Config Preview Deploy module that handles configuration rebasing similar to git operations
  • Accelerated project delivery through standardized components and centralized service management
  • Reduced time-to-market while maintaining complete control over content and design
  • Eliminated manual project setup through hub-based provisioning system
  • Decreased editorial workload through intelligent content assistance and workflow optimization
  • Achieved predictable performance via established deployment pipelines and continuous monitoring
  • Ensured enterprise-grade security through systematic updates and quality assurance processes
  • Enabled rapid campaign launches with integrated SEO and analytics capabilities
  • Delivered cost-predictable solution including major version updates and infrastructure management, providing a worry-free solution for our clients.
Back to top
Why Drupal was chosen

Drupal was selected for its flexibility and configuration management capabilities, as well as being able to scale and support enterprise-level applications in a secure fashion. By adding the module Lupus Decoupled Drupal, it becomes the ideal basis for decoupled systems. The platform delivers enterprise-grade security through its dedicated security team and robust framework, while supporting 100+ languages natively for global deployment. Drupal's open source nature eliminates vendor lock-in and ensures access to continuous improvements. The platform's evolution, including upcoming tools like Drupal Canvas, demonstrates long-term viability for headless implementations.

Technical Specifications

Drupal version:

Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen

Most of the modules were required for exactly the use-case that they fulfill, e.g. Lupus Decoupled Drupal to provide the headless CMS support. AI to leverage recent enhancements to the Drupal framework as well to adhere to European data privacy laws.

Each module has been carefully reviewed and plays a key part in mossbo.