John Paul Davis

Plan International connects donors to 700,000 children via letter-writting. The client wanted a way to provide updates on sponsored children, the relevant news in their countries, and worldwide news that impacts those children.

The app is a React.js front-end that consumes an API curated in Drupal, sourced from multiple locations. Plan International is actually an association of individual organizations worldwide, each with their own technological capacity. A central database of all children sponsored did not exist, for instance. This meant designing and documenting an API so that these individual orgs could submit data to the app in a uniform way. We used Swagger to document and design the API. Data is input into Drupal which acts as a “headless” CMS, publishing the endpoints. React.js consumes and displays the data.