I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water. The ocean makes me feel really small and it puts my whole life into perspective. It reminds me, okay, I'm this very little piece of this huge earth and it humbles you and it grounds you and it makes me feel almost like I've been baptized. And I'm born again when I get out of the ocean. Let me show you the perfumes that I brought on this trip to set off the vibes and all the perfumes are from Scentbird and thank you so much Scentbird for sponsoring this video. So if you don't know what Scentbird is, let me put you on, girl. Scentbird is a fragrance subscription service that allows you to try a new designer fragrance every month for only $17. Love that they give you a 30-day supply to try a new fragrance before committing to the full-size bottle. And on Scentbird, they have so many different brands to choose from and also so many options when it comes to colognes and perfume. So the perfumes I'm testing out are Sicily Easier. It has amber, bergamot and pink pepper. This is a nice citrus scent. And if you aren't new here, you already know I love me a Tensiana Terenzi scent, okay? And they have so many scents. And this Casapia, this is gone. I've been spraying it like crazy and I cannot wait to purchase the big bottle and that's why this makes it so convenient for me to make sure I really like a scent. Confession of a Rebel, this is the perfect hot summer day scent. The combination of the pink grapefruit, the sandalwood and the wild berries just make it a perfect combo. I'm a huge perfumes day Marley fan. Love this Dillena La Rose. It smells like a beautiful rose flower. I love the mix of the Turkish rose and the white musk mixed together. So be sure to click the link below or you can scan the QR code and use my code CARATOO for 55% off your first month at Scentbird. That's only $8 for your first month. And thank you again, Scentbird, for sponsoring this video. Crossing the borders of your seminary away with the demons. So my sister and my cousin and then at the Morgan and this is their room, y'all. It's so nice. It's huge. It's a penthouse suite. It cost 10,000. But y'all, it's so pretty here. The water looks so good. Do you like water? It's so hot. We're gonna just take a quick shower and then go downstairs and get some sun. Honestly, that's what I'm about to do. And like I said, it's so hot out here. And then I'm probably gonna order me some lunch. Are we going? Do y'all wanna go somewhere for lunch? Or y'all just wanna wait till dinner time? Yeah, so I'll probably check in with y'all once we settle in and figure out what we finna do. What? What? Why would you post that? I can't post this. Y'all just gotta reach them. Y'all, so we stopped at this little place just to take shots. But we're gonna go somewhere else to eat. Well, we're gonna take our first shot on the ice. All ready. They didn't even know. Chaser, what's wrong with you? Why would you wait? I'm gonna take it like a champ.  This is how it feels.  Oh, y'all, you're pretty skinny. I'm okay. I'm okay. Later, but I'm feeling so grateful. Y'all, look at this view. It's crazy. And they're playing live music right now. So they're having like a ladies night and you get a free shot of Perseco. So we're definitely gonna take advantage of that. And then we're gonna go find some ahuka, of course. Duh, hello. And then, yeah, but first after this, we're gonna chill first and then go outside. Cause obviously it's only six o'clock. It's very early, but it feels so late. No, you're not. It feels so good out here. You do. I like this song. You know this song? Yeah. I think- Can you sing it? Okay. Hold on. Wait, it gotta go to the chorus. Okay, I think you should get up there. Where? There they go. Oh, that smile is the way to go. Y'all, so I just got off the shower and just to wash the day off.  I love, you know, vacation.  Okay. We went to Crab Rib Check, I think it's called. It's all good. I give it a strong eight out of 10. Just because I did, yeah, I still, I haven't had, I still, in like, I haven't ever had one, but those were so good. That just had a lot of fat on them. And the girls were saying to me that I'll kill my maids, but I'm just doing a little chill with her right now. We're relaxing. It's still early here, y'all. It's still only eight o'clock. And the place we're going to doesn't close until three. I mean, we're just gonna chill for right now. We had a couple of drinks. We had a free Shadow Prosecco here because they had Ladies Night Downstairs. That's why y'all seen Homegirl, staying her heart out, do, do, do, yeah, one, two. They hired a live woman to sing songs for tonight at Entertainment, which I think is so nice. It's getting romantic. There were a lot of couples down there and she got up singing. She was like, if I ain't got you. No, like, she was really, it was really cute. I thought the man was gonna propose. It looked like a setup because she was walking towards a couple. But, yeah, girl, I'm just about to, like I said, do some skincare and then just wait until it's time to get up.  I woke up at five o'clock today. So I'm gonna miss my plate, so. But, yeah, so far, so good. And this hotel is so nice. The staff is so friendly. Everybody on the island is so friendly from our drivers to the people that work here. So good. And also, y'all, we met a couple of other girls on the trip. One of the girls, I think she's here on a solo trip. So I was like, oh, that's so dope. So traveling is definitely a good way to meet people. I know people in the world are. And you just don't know who to try this. But that's so dope that they're letting the girls hang out with them. And what's so crazy is two of the girls recognized me from TikTok, which I think is so funny. They didn't even know I had a YouTube. They were like, we see you on TikTok. And I was like, wow, that's crazy. Cause y'all know I upload on TikTok all the time. I really am, like, I'm semi-trying to be consistent on here, but it's like, it is what it is. God has, you know, His plan for me. So, but I thought that was so crazy. And then one of the girls is from London and then the other two are from Minnesota. Midwest girls, hello. I love meeting girls from the Midwest because they just make it seem like home, you know? This is my favorite sunscreen right now, the Fenty Skin, the Hydravisor Girl, SPF and moisturizer N1. The skin looks, this smells so good. If you can get y'all hands on this summer Fridays, what's this one called? Pink sugar. Yeah, pink sugar. I got this when I was in New York. There was a little pop up and I had a snack. This smells so good. It smells like cotton candy. I'm gonna wanna try this. So, this is a new pickup. So I've been getting little travel sized serums and things like that just to keep in my toiletry bag specifically. And I got this sunscreen just to throw up in here. Obviously, I like to use the Fenty Skin, but how many? And I brought a checked bag. And this is a 1.7-pooled outfit. So this is definitely perfect for travel. And also, the packaging is made for you to refill it. That's why it was so easy for me to take out. But I really like this sunscreen. No white pads, very hydrated to the skin. And it leaves a dewy, glowy finish. But I kinda wanna see how this touches silk sunscreen looks. I wanna see if it'll leave a white cast. And y'all, the freaking Yuli rays over here. Baby, strong. I can not wait to wake up early in the morning and just soak up the sun. And obviously, the sun goes down early, so I've definitely gotta get it in early. And look at this. So this is what it looks like. And then I'm gonna use one of my scent births since y'all these fight your, the subscriptions that I got this month to y'all wouldn't have seen that in the beginning of the video. But y'all, I've been really into the Sicily at Izia. Like I said, you'll see it in the beginning of the video. And then I, this is such the perfect way to try out a perfume because obviously they're so expensive. And the Casapia by Tanzania Torendi. Maybe, yes. Y'all, see y'all, see y'all. I need to get this in a full size. I've been spraying it with, see y'all. When I say down. Hi y'all. So I'm just gonna lay down for a second. I wanna check in with y'all once we get up for the night. I'm super excited to see how St. Martin's life is. And obviously there's a Dutch in the front side. We're on the Dutch side. And it's a lot of, you know, of us over here. It's very diverse out here. Everybody here on this island is so nice. I wanna check in with y'all once we head out for the night.  Maybe I need some color. So I can look good in my outfits, okay? I just applied this browning oil. I went in with the Maui Babe browning oil. And I'm gonna see how this works as far as like enhancing my tan. And then I just put on a sun bum on top. I wanna get dark, but I don't wanna be bright. I should have shaved my face before I got here.  Yeah, I'll check on trial once we get downstairs.  What you got on? Who me? Mm-hmm. A brand vanilla and... I'm gonna take a bag of this right now. Ha ha ha! It's a little old. I think it should take a shot. There you go. Thank you.  They look a hit different.  It's stronger.  Mm-hmm.  No, that's not in our water. Down. I got them yesterday. Y'all know I gotta drink a little slow, but I get it down. Come on, shot doesn't shot. I get it down. Ha ha ha! She gotta take six. Big shot for one shot. And... See? This y'all can't... All right y'all, we just got back to the room at Fresh and Up A. And I had some candy. But yeah, I just had done uploading my Sunday reset for YouTube. So I just wanted to... Because today we're gonna go to Lorté barbs. It's supposed to be cracking today because they always have a party the last Saturday of the month. So we caught it. We caught a good time with the carnival and also, you know, these activities going on. But yeah, I've been on vacation mode. Okay, there's two different types of people. There's two people that go around explore the culture, da-da-da. And then there's other people that vacation. Take it easy, baby. Let's ease into the vacation. Okay, let's ease into the island. Okay, you know what I'm saying? So yeah, I really wanted to catch a tan. So I've been doing the things that I've been wanting to do. And last time my sister and my cousin actually went out. I just, I was like, no, go without me. So they end up going, I'm waiting for them. They just tell me what happened. But they did come to my room. Y'all know like, last night I was like half asleep when they came in. But they were like, all I could hear was, all I remember hearing was my sister saying, they're a nightlife. It's crazy. I think they went to Lotus because district seven to one burned down here. I guess I was like popular spot to go to. But yeah, so I'm gonna go downstairs while they're still asleep.  And we need to make it to that place by one before one o'clock. Cause homeboy downstairs that works in the resort. He was like, yeah, I'm going tomorrow. I should be there after before one because it is crowded. Get your section, table, whatever, woo-woo. So hopefully we'll be able to do that. It's only nine o'clock right now. I intend on getting dressed by 11. Yeah, 11 o'clock, maybe 10. I'm just waiting for this to finish uploading. And then I'm gonna leave my way downstairs. I know that's where I grew up. Look at her. That's what I'm about to be doing. Oh yeah, I'm gonna see her. She's like a little dot on me. But yeah, I'm gonna sit downstairs and, but yeah, I just want some more color before I even put on my daytime outfits. And I think there's a pool there. Let me show y'all what I'm talking about. And they got a box of water out here. And y'all, the food here is so good. I have, we haven't ate at the restaurant but the food by the pool is, yeah. The Caesar salad with the chicken was so bomb. Their chicken was very seasoned, juicy. And then we had Contra Fritters. I really like Contra when I'm over here in the islands because it's just so good. And it's like a, it tastes like a crab cake in a way. But yeah, I'm about to make my own outside before everybody gets up so I can chill for a little, I'm excited, I'm excited, so. So cute. All right, y'all, so we headed out to the beach club. So I have on this Ghani two-piece set. I don't have any cover up. So I just threw in these pants and then my Marni bag. And then these YSL tinted sunnies that are so cute. But anyways, I'm about to go in our way out the door and I'll see y'all once we get there. Wee, ayy.  So we're gonna take the first shot.  Time to take some shots. Cause I can feel it right here. You know how it is. I can't wait until we got on the boat.  They all have to say, yeah. They'll be your cloutores for a thousand dollars. You? Cloutores? Or maybe we do it for the doctors. Cheers. Marni's cause she got a thaw, you gotta be able to kiss her. Yeah, I got a thaw, yay. I'm fine. They wanna keep going. Y'all, the people out here, they gonna go here, so, but we're not going to that. I'm gonna sponge the dress from skin that I just put on a no lash look. So I'm probably gonna be rocking this for the next couple of days.  Cause I fell in the, y'all, I fell in the water. So I didn't even tell y'all this. So I've actually seen a floaty just floating around. And I thought I could just walk, I thought the whole pool was just shallow. Like you could walk, no girl. So I literally was walking. She's just saying that injuries. Yeah, I can walk. My whole, everything is way under the water. So anyways, I'll check on y'all once we get to the modest part. I've been vlogging off my phone a lot just because my camera to be safe it's a lot going on, you know? So, yup. Yeah, this is the look for tonight. She's not coming. We got some real niggas in the truck. Yo sandwich, what is that? Bro, speed. You need to get in the shop or something. It's good. What kind of sandwich did you get here? All right y'all, so we just got, it was good. You tried it? Good, but I didn't eat it all. To be a sandwich in the refrigerator is actually good. And I'm taking it. So y'all, we just got back from the club. It's about 5 a.m. right now. We went to moon bar cause what Lotus was, what was going on? It was like dead. And then all the other bars were dead because of the carnivals. So everybody was at moon bar, which was a cute buy but they was running on the shisha. Like how y'all running on the shisha? Like how? I'm choking. Like how? But anyways, so tomorrow's a whole new day. Y'all be getting massages on that beach. I can't wait, I'm excited. So yeah, I gotta wake up early for that but I'm about to call it a night. So girls, I'm about to say good night. And yeah, so. Like comment and subscribe if you haven't already. Yeah.   Try your sandwich. I'm about to call it a night.  Maybe that's my sandwich. You can go on my family. Not y'all, I got sandwiches. Anyways, good night. Today's the last full day. I'm walking now. I'm sitting on the beach. I'm going first, me and Shakira and then Jay and Teve and my sister are going after. So, and it's currently nine o'clock. I don't even know if this camera is foggy. Of the humidity. It should be a nice last day. So we're headed to the spot to check in and then I think they're gonna walk us on the beach. So I'm pretty excited. You know, I just literally woke up, brushed my teeth and threw this one. One, four, three, I'm excited. Three, four, three, four, three. Oh my God, that goat is finished. He's gonna jump the gate. He hungry. He starving. He's literally gonna jump the gate. I can't.  It's over there and that's where the planes fly. Oh my God. I'll do it here called this. Let me record you. Record on your camera. Okay.  I'm gonna do it. Should I do this one? They're both soft. Oh my God. Oh my God. This a girl. Literally. It's like a dog looking at you. It's them jumping up at me. No, he just wants to get to me. Look at him. He's itchy. What does it mean when they put their horns like this? Oh, they're good. That's good. They're there. Bully. Crazy. It don't matter how much you eat. Oh, he made those indexes. Oh my God. Oh my God. That's why they're separate. No, they're not separate. Oh, it's separate. I feed them so he knows me well. I want to. Chinese chicken? Yeah, look at the little chicken. Wait, where? Look in the water. Oh. Yeah, I mean never, y'all. So we just got done with our massages and me and Shakira are having enough breakfast. We just caught it right in time. And we're enjoying the view. How do you break your massage? I give it like a 10. A 10? A 10 for sure. Yeah, it was a good 10. You're like, please, the pressure. No, she was manhandling me. I was trying like to not, but it was like soon she went deep in my tension, I'm like, I'll be all out. I can't enjoy this. I needed that though, like she, because I told her my shoulders and it really like loosened it up for sure. She definitely did that. But after that it was like, all gentle. Yeah, they did a thing. Yeah, they did. So yeah, y'all, y'all gotta come to the morning. It's so nice here. It is. And I can't believe they have a petting zoo and it's also you can bring your kids, but these kids really aren't like bad. Not that I'm seeing. Maybe I can't bring my kid.  Right, we're just waiting for our breakfast and then we're gonna go change and then lay out for a little bit. We're trying to debate if we're gonna go to the Rainbow Cafe, two of the girls that we met yesterday are on their way there now. And I told them to text me once they get there and see the vibes. But we still gotta wait for Jay to finish it and my sister to get their massages. So yeah. We're gonna make a decision if we wanna turn up or we wanna chill. Yeah, but that's a beach. It's a beach. That's probably why Rainbow is cracking on Sundays cause he said all the locals be at the beach on Sunday cause like we all for work. Like a beach party. Yeah. So, let any hope. Ouch, I'm gonna chill one more time. We decided in my hair shop I just bought this moisturizing cream, hopefully. They'll do something like justice for me. Maybe when I took that dip in the pool I know it's over for me. No. Cheers. Cheers. Oh yeah, after I ate, drank some water I started feeling it in my stomach. Yeah. Hey y'all, so. Hey y'all, so I know I look crazy right now. Hey y'all, so. So yeah, I just came back upstairs and I'm just taking the time out to respond to the comments that I posted on my video yesterday cause y'all know I love talking to y'all. And I'm just feeling so grateful and so blessed. I'm so happy to be here with my family and you know, people that I've known for years and we spent a quality time with them on vacation. And yeah, I'm literally so happy that I'm able to treat, you know, my people and whatever you want. I got you. But yeah, I'm just feeling so grateful. Like look at this view y'all. Like, ugh, it just doesn't get any better than this. Ooh, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. So the plan is, so Rainbow Cafe is a popular beach spot so I guess on Sundays the locals have a hall here. That's why the beaches are so packed.  That's what our driver was saying yesterday. So we're gonna try to go to Rainbow Cafe later on today but we wanna enjoy our pool. Obviously it's so nice, it's so beautiful.  And I also wanna get like cool pics too, like two little videos and stuff in the water because it just looks like an ocean. I think that was what their goal was. I think it looks so cute. When you enter the water it looks like sand. And I thought that was, that's a cute little detail so it's cool. So yeah y'all, if y'all come to St. Martin I would highly recommend the Morgang. I love it here, the people here are so nice. But I'm about to respond to these comments and then I'll check in with y'all because I started getting ready for the pool off. So yeah, and my sister and my cousin and Jay are eating downstairs at the restaurant. So, and as y'all seen, me and Shakira are already ate, so. But yeah. Chillin' about a pool day and then we're gonna go on jet ski. So I have this top on from Zimmerman and as big lies y'all seen that I got in my last video. They're so cute and then I just paired it with this Prada bag and yeah, that's the look, it's getting all glow. Faye, I'm feelin' it. So I'm just waitin' for them to finish up. Get super excited because I really wanna take a cute photo. Oh, and then these earrings I got from Zara too and then my protective shades. And then my race from Fury and then y'all, the usual Carrier jewelry and then I put my Hermes bracelet on. So yeah, I can't wait, super excited. Sister girl, so we are about to go out. Don't do that. They gonna demonetize me. For doing that? Yes, you cannot show those titties. I didn't show those titties. Yes you did. I bounced a little bit. Put your swimsuit on to Faye's, let's go. Formation, y'all, let's get in formation. Let's take a shower. Let's meet us downstairs because I don't, I wanna get these pictures of them. I wanna get you on my basis. Shot time. Zeal the Rant. Who wants one? You want one? Yeah, I want one, come on. Wait, I need apple juice. Come here, Kiera. I need cranberry juice. No, I need the white. I can't do that. Where's the cranberry juice? Mm. And she was putting it down. First, be hitting different. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, come on. I'm gonna be added to the next trip. We'll FaceTime. On them. Got to eat me. Yes. No, that's different. Got to eat this Caribbean. Ghana is after me. Next trip because Ghana is in December, baby. Let's do it. Fourth of July. July. I'll check on you all. I'm gonna speak it. Let's take a shot. I already took mine today. Yes. Isn't it Sunday? Yeah, Sunday. We missed the special features. Let's go. My cousins, my supporters, never knew what it was. Like, we'll be there now. She's never come punch daddy. He said, when do you want it? When do you want it? I said, no, don't you put another extra in my drink. Just because I asked you for it. Or do you all just want to take these photos and then go there? I don't care what we do. I'm down for the vibe. Okay, let me just take my photos real quick and we can bounce. But you're gonna be all wet. Yeah. I don't want to get this out. Okay, let's go. Let's get this. Make it small. 250? You gotta take a lady out to dinner tonight. And we're about to go... What are we about to do? We're about to go to Roxy Beach and hang out for a little bit before dinnertime. And yes, the last night, we're having a blast. We just had a good old time at the pool. But, Tiffani Char, are you having fun? A blast. I found the man of my dreams. Oh, blast. The man of her dreams. Okay, figure it out. Y'all, they really arguing over this guy. He's mine. The boy. Yeah, let's take our shot first. You didn't say this number. Shot, shot, shot, shot, shots every second. So that's it. I'll put some pheromones on. So let's see how it works, okay? You can let's see if it works. It better work. Have you Chanel's latest collection? Novus. Oh, I kinda love Novus. 2023 collection. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I pre-ordered them. Did you? Are these new release? 3.99 on sale for the first time. Oh my God, 3.99. I just paid 2.99 for mine. You got a good deal. Mm-hmm. I mean, 4.99.  But she can't have them. You really wanna go back and forth with me about this man, don't you? I do. Hey, so let me have them. Don't make me beg. Mm-hmm. I'd love them to beg me. Yeah. I'll have your feet all night. Let's hear it. I'll have your feet all night. I'll do everything. I'll let you have them if you let me record. Okay. You know what I'm saying? You gotta eat it. And their coffee here is actually pretty good. So I'm gonna give it a coffee. And probably a spoon. I gotta tell you about last night, too. But yeah, it was a good last night. Y'all can't really see people on their balconies. Like, they're still just doing stuff. But yeah, so I'm gonna have them fetched this time. I just have on the same swimsuit skins that I had on the first day. Just a quick throw on one, two to get some more color. And then I just put on the browning lotion in the sunscreen. We're tan, okay? Yeah. But I'm just doing a little bit of skin and hair before we head to the airport. My hair's a mess. I need to go home and take this hair out. And I've been getting so many questions about this hair. It's from Naomi, Naomi Collection. Love this curl pattern. Obviously I was swimming in chlorine and sent like a mermaid girl. And it got matted up. So, and I wasn't rushing it. But I really do like this curl pattern. It's very nice. This is my second time putting it in my hair. But yet, well, I, to St. Martin, the experience was a 10 out of 10. But last night, let me tell y'all, if y'all go to Jack's Steakhouse, the Black Truffle Pasta, so good. The best freaking pasta I've ever had. But we just had some complaints and there weren't very apologetic about it. They had a little attitude. It was giving a very irate. And also, in the place we were at, somebody was having a seizure. I don't know what was going on. He was having a reaction to the mashed potatoes or something like that. I don't know, it was just a lot going on in here. The man threw up in front of us, so everybody at the table lost their appetite. It was just a lot going on. And when Shakira's food, her food was cold when they brought it out, but she did like her lobster. But everything else was cold. And she asked for them to warm it up and they had an attitude about it. I'm like, it was just, like I said, it was a lot going on. It was a long day. I was in, you know, I didn't, and I ordered the lobster mac and cheese. And out here, they have their lobster cuisine made with the lobster, with the Caribbean lobster, which is a very hard texture.  So it's different. It tastes, I don't know, the taste isn't the same. So I didn't enjoy the lobster mac and cheese. And honestly, the lobster mac and cheese tasted like box mac and cheese. Not gonna lie, I didn't like it. I literally took one noodle and I was like, I'm just not pleased with this. And normally they would take it off the bill. But I really wasn't tripping about that, but it's like I'm not eating it. So, you know, normally restaurants would just take it off if you didn't like it, or they'll replace it with something else, which neither was accommodated. So yeah, but I'm not really a huge complainer, but you know, and nobody, I don't know, girl, but the only thing I like from that restaurant was the drinks and then also the lobster, I mean the chocolate pasta. Yeah, if you go there, just be aware of customer service. But the ambiance and everything is nice. Other than that, this trip was like a 10 out of 10. It was like a mix between turning up and relaxing, which I like because I'm the type of person to be on chill mode. I need to reset after drinking so many days in a row. Like I can't keep going. I need to reset. That's just the type of person that I am. So I feel like it was a good mix between the two. I would definitely come here if I was on like a solo trip. Like I said, everybody is so welcoming at this resort. So nice.  So I was like, wow, I love it here. And like I said, all the people are so friendly. And they're friendly to a certain extent, but we lost our items and they turned it in to wherever we were at. Cause my sister lost her money pouch, I believe, and they actually turned it in and she ended up finding it by accident like the lost and found. And they were like, oh yeah, we have it. And I was like, oh wow. Cause they really couldn't have just kept the money, you know? And I cannot wait to go home and be in my water. It's crazy. When you leave the country, the water be different. Cause I have like five white heads on my face. I finally looked in the mirror. You don't know, when you on vacation, I don't know. I just got close enough to a mirror where I could see myself for real. And I was like, what the, I have like five breakouts. So definitely gotta go home and bounce back, okay? Oh, yay. Her. Drink at the bar. Denzel, wait, hold on. It's foggy. No, I'm not. Denzel, our best bartenders at Salt Restaurant here in the beautiful St. Martin, St. Martin. So this, this is how they, no, Arthur, you're the best. Both of y'all, both of y'all. He's second best, cause he didn't get us in, what's your name? You didn't get us in Rainbow Cafe. What was that outside street? Yeah, exactly. And he's a host. So y'all gotta hit up Denzel's. Y'all wanna go somewhere in these islands? I ended up getting a local man. Remember the guy I came with? Yes, you did. Wait, what guy? Judy. I was like, he's with us. I run this island. Period. Don't play. You and them titties. Yeah. Come on, Arthur, one last time. Connor, you gotta do it right. You gotta do it right. Wait, I got a report. He's such a gentleman. Oh, he's so nice out here. Tell them how nice the staff is. It's beautiful. The staff are amazing. Kyra picked the best resort on the island. So 10 out of 10. I'm drunk. Your food is good. You what? I'm late. Up this one. Yeah, he finna clock in. You gotta say bye to him. Oh, you see?


He will be fine pretty soon. Okay, let's go. We will talk about decoupling today Decoupling, yeah nice because how to decouple your front end from the back end and why and so I Can't do this my own actually the biggest problem will be in tomorrow pronounce your last name, but okay so who we are so next to me there is Anton and We are on Bruce This is a Tesla from wondrous as well. We are working in buzzerland Switzerland, and we will talk about front end today Okay, let me to make a brief overview of our talk today First of all, we will make a short introduction when we will talk about Drupal and fractal style guide we will talk closely about Fractal theme for making style guide is related from Drupal and when we will talk about Drupal site After that, we will see a real demo project with complete setup of Drupal and fractal working together and we will make some conclusion notes To summer all them up Let's go Decoupling the standard way of decoupling things is to separate front end stuff and back end via API interface this allows to isolate front-end development and Front end system from back end system and to communicate between them via API interface But the bad thing about it systems are decoupled, but people are not because front end developers Still requires to understand the back end of Drupal still requires to know it's a female engine Because you know it's pretty hard to write a big template without knowledge what's behind it and what's data What's data will be in input to this big template? So we will talk about the complete story about decoupling on the back-end side Let's think of back-end as two layers First layer is back-end logic where is our data is stored and managed and another layer on the back-end side Is a presentation layer which is delegated to tweak so Let's consider that our back-end is also Split it into independent parts first is a logic and second is presentation thing Why should we Think in such way Because it will simplify the whole implementation process of our projects during design during prototyping development and so on because we can work on Presentation logic independently from business logic on our back-end side and And here leaving style guide will help us because it will allow us to work on design independently from Drupal First of all, let me to remember Key thing behind all of this. This is atomic design thing about Comparantization and splitting the big interfaces in the smaller parts But putting things together can be really hard like on this real-life example of assembling a car vehicle We have a car body and we have other car parts and All of them are produced separately on different factories probably and Sometimes it could be really hard to assemble a whole thing together But we will try to do Okay, let's now make a brief introduction of fractal component library What is it how we can use it and later we will talk about how we can integrate this thing inside Drupal projects First of all a few words about fractal itself fractal library is tool running and node gs server Which is completely independent from Drupal and only requires no gs environment It can hold All your styles components and patterns inside it can help you to document these things and to build page prototypes independently from Drupal so your front-end developer can just use the single environment without any PHP knowledge and to create a complete Website interface Why to use fractal? Because fractal tool is can gives you a complete freedom from templating language. It's a template language agnostic, so internally it's just knows about components and where interfaces and you can use any templated language actually which will render these components the key thing is a The knowledge of components and where interfaces Then you can integrate this component library inside any website actually doesn't matter Drupal or another system the thing is to separate your style gate from your website engine completely and then integrate it back component-based design Of course driven by atomic design We have components we can create and maintain them separately and when we can compose them inside system The important thing here how to preview our components because Component itself is just style and template probably baked with some JavaScript logic But to be shown correctly it requires some input some data to be Inside it here we can hard code some Example data or we can use the faker to generate the data automatically Accord in accordance with components interface or we can even implement our own API calls, which will provide a real life data to our component library And of course the good thing about fractal it can be run locally on static server without any php backend and complex web server setup And Finally, we can customize its default theme so it will look like our Targeting brand look and feel And it's created by company not by individual that means that it's have a great support and maintenance and We can make sure we can use it and rely on it in our production projects Okay, enough from introduction words. Let's see. What is what is it in the real life? Here is an example on official fractal website 24 ways which showing On one side This is a public website where you can see the application of this component library and on other side Very special section and with the website showing you all the components registered in the system You can easily navigate through them. You can Show each of them separately and to give it some context also The cool thing about fractal each component has Several features you can show its markup. You can Give it a context You could also give it a try on different resolutions right inside with interface without any special tools here Here is a one of examples Of complex component and layout inside this component library You can see how it's easy and Seamless to work and play with components. It can be used when By developers by front-end developers by content managers by designers. This is a real living style gate which can be Maintained and accessed by the whole team This is another example of the same components not the same about the fractal This is a component library for a different client You can see that this is different set of components and different theme giving you a unique user experience and look and feel But it's the same internally is the same system. It's a just a collection of components registered in the system And completely independent from Drupal Until this point We don't have Drupal in any way. We don't have php. It's all written and serving in Node.js server A friendly environment for front-end developer, right? And here is some internal stuff how to sit up components inside the system You can read more about the fractal components on the official website But the cool thing since this system is completely template language agnostic We can provide a tweak adapter to it. So we can use this system for managing components Written and tweak that's cool because later we can use them in Drupal as this Here is a one of example of a block quote component and some internal setup you can See it later our talk is more about conceptual things and demo and setup is the next step if you When you start working with it And this is an example of a more complex component which consists of various styles data and layouts And you can see example folder structure here How it can be stored inside you can see css file with styles at victim plate with markup config json which will hold a component interface and Some files on Drupal site Here on the left you can see a configuration Which describes the component interface. It's required to let system know about your component How to interact with it how to provide data to it And how to render it Okay With a short Summary of fractal system. What is it? What is it can be used for? But Shortly, it's a component library totally independent from any backend language Totally independent from Drupal which will make it easier to maintain to adopt and to learn for your front end developers Now let's look Inside Drupal and how we will use it in our Drupal site Okay Thank you So just going back We just wanted to point out that you can also dynamically add content with a note library called faker and that's quite nice And yeah, so why do we use need to use Drupal in this case anyhow because Yeah, we kind of need to deliver content at some point and we also need to store content at some point as well Of course server side business logic. Um, all this can be done with frameworks like react, et cetera But for us Drupal is important so But what what we are not using Drupal for or trying to not use in the future is actually theming sorry but For me working in this field for like the two last years trying to to decouple everything I really highly recommend to Look at the Drupal theming layer because all that has been done there is quite important and I still search for better Examples and so in terms of accessibility as well as in building blocks Um, it really gives me again all the time a very good feeling So A really short note about this stuff is that Drupal 8 make a significant step forward In this area because in Drupal 7 the markup and styles were encapsulated in Drupal And it was really hard to separate them But for starting from Drupal 8 it's separated from the ground and now we can completely forget about styling and theming in Drupal we can delegate the content management function to it and Move our styling and theming process outside of Drupal. That's now possible and that's pretty easy to do with Drupal 8 You're completely right on this point. So Let's see how to integrate it in the end. Uh, the little teaser on the bottom if you can spot it already So first of all, we need the component library and Drupal 8 Which is a very nice module that allows you to put your themes somewhere else then into the theme Uh, theme folder theme Theme template folder. Sorry. That's the right word. So, uh, in Drupal you have the add my theme Shortage or allies the same you have with your modules and so on with other theme and to Broaden this you can use the component library. Next there is the tweak field of value library module which We will see later why we need to use this because handing over values is kind of problematic in Drupal or it is problematic in Drupal due to a very important reason caching and Yeah, and then we just need to tell fractal Instead of handlebars instead of nunchucks instead of whatever templating language. I like I like pug actually um Please use twig and we wrote a little adapter for a Drupal flavored twig thing so that you can use Certain things but not important at this point. So and if you want to install it, it's down below so The basic idea of this is called the host template pattern Which is not ideal, but it works. So in the end, we have my theme in the themes custom folder We have our normal templates folder and there we have a page or A node whatsoever and this node should incorporate a certain component In this case the box twig template Inside the my theme info dot yaml to actually enable The new folder to discover the new folder that's called components and yeah, it's components components components all over You can rename it as you like In the Box twig file you actually just set up what you want to have sort of basic example would be having a link It's very basic. I know but the link consists of two variables having a url as well as the actual content And then the actual template in this case the page html twig file Would include from this components alias box box twig with the given variables content field link you on content field link text Please I want a note more about this about this hosting plate pattern From one point of view this is a drawback because it requires you to write these include Sentence each new time when you want to use a component from your stylegate library But on the other side this can be advantage because you can reuse the same Component from your stylegate into different component for drupal So you can have two systems one is the components for your stylegate style components And which is served for it by fractal completely and another one is Drupal components which is served by drupal and using this simple includes You can make kind of bridge between them. So We couldn't be completely different set of components on drupal and on fractal And you can do everything you want like here For drupal this is a page component with its own template But for style this is a box Component which is different, but we can use it right here And as I just said it's the host template pattern We just called it that way because it's like grabbing It's not ideal, but it helps to be quick stable and again Let's have a look You really have to decide how you go with your css files with your javascript files So in this case we use a scss file that's going to be magically included somehow and don't ask and Yeah, but the the example I gave before was a little bit different and to be a little bit more realistic We actually have to look at the handing over the values with the phone Field for example the emails field and there I put the field value pipe field value That's a filter. I believe the right term would be instead of using for example handing over the the name as label Brackets items and get string this kind of makes a difference So I'm just slowly Fastly going into this because if you would kind the values then so the first one So kind name items get string would directly give you the string. What's the problem about this? The problem would be that there's no caching attached. So we need actually this pipe field value to Initialize the render and the rendering And if you really really really need to do this you actually need to trigger the render for this very field in In this situation, it's not the problem of the name or a single string field. It's more the problem of having Related entities if those entities change in the cache And in this very particular situation the cache would not change And would not be invalidated So this module is quite nice and it gives you the a nice warning I just gave you there. So you have to do this tweak image Pipe render on your field if you're doing something like that Rather not so um and now I wanted to go over with you a demo project we developed so far It's not the whole deal of course, but it shows nicely where to go And so we have this Nice website that is so fantastically designed has a homepage has a view on the very very homepage showing Three different news items in the view mode teaser And of course it has a very important forms because the web is all about interaction and so we can see All the form items that are kind of possible We've got a 404 which kind of says no And of course we have our news overview page that gives you a list of news items and if we click on a certain item We have a very well designed Header image as well as an awesome gallery and we could put in some text here. Sorry for not doing the text What would this look like in the style guide? The thing is I just showed you the website. So you have an idea what's the final product and uh doing A living style guide actually Puts me always in awkward position. I start with the small things.  They want to see the whole page and that's the reason I tend to show a living style guide backwards And for this it's not the whole thing but for example, if we go for A simple page that consists of text having a text image Paragraph as well as a news stripe. We could think of having like this composition This could also make the whole page And you could also go and have a look at the whole page independently and see what it what it looks like and As well as the form Which in this case looks a little bit different, but It does not matter because the form needs to be adjusted to whatever container it lives in lives in and Yes, and then the actually the most important thing for us is to start with typography and here we Stied all the important things that are actually items smaller components so to speak And this is something you could actually show the client saying, okay, I put a nice Mood area ahead above it and I put also the breadcrumb as well as the main navigation above it Put slap the footer below and boom We have a website and So the client slowly understands I can do like this Block quote and I can show do lists and I can Situate images and I have a table and of course different levels of headlines and So if we start the other way around saying, okay, we need to define the colors of the project so we Just link show them We need to at least show the icons of the project and So we slowly start over with having all the paragraphs and the lists and the links and somewhere should be the buttons Yes, the default button. Yeah, that's So impressive. That's the reason why I showed you the other way around And but these are all small items and actually those items you don't actually reuse You just use because what is a button in this situation a button is only a class to a link or a button tag And So again, there's also the next problem of having grids So I could have rows and I can also have certain columns They are not very impressive Um doing this is like just colors. Yes, that's the reason we actually need to separate the very big things from the very small things And at some point we realized the in-between are the things we are actually Interested in so I could have a news teaser that only consists of the name of the author and as well as a title and maybe I can also have a Drupal speak view mode being a full news teaser and as you realize this full news teaser is as with as the The current the current window And as well as an image item It's only an image forms. We will skip And then we can slowly go a little bit bigger saying that we have a news wall Which then would consist of a grid We already seen that a grid of Certain news items we've seen that the grid then holds the news items in its width And we can reuse this whole thing and if we have a look down below We can also see that we just iterate over the Pattern of the news item View mode full news teaser and again naming is the biggest challenge here and Yeah, what's more important is if we start off with having some JavaScript in there. So as we seen in the other other demo, which was going through There was like a navigation pulling off and so so JavaScript having in there is also very important. So if I would have a image gallery If this would work load, I think the fourth did work Yeah, interesting. Yeah, there it comes. It takes some time Um, I can actually I think this was with full screen No Okay, not You would need to have a JavaScript being independently run there in there as well and working in there as well and And something like breadcrumbs Makes you startle a little bit and I will explain in a short second why so just have a look at the actual code that is going on there So a little bit repeatedly Repeated as we just saw We name it that way. So it does not need to be like this. So we but we came up with the idea Just slamming everything inside one folder Does not do the trick because as I just said, we've got the perceptual patterns. So lock road buttons colors and all that stuff colors just needs to be a Description in fractals saying, okay, that are my colors Uh, ideally you would add in there a CSS file saying That are my colors and please reuse them buttons can be a little bit more complex because we can use mixins to change colors And then finally incorporate them But again buttons is just a small tweak template And um, yeah, so that are actually the things that are we could reuse in every project So every company probably will have their own perceptual patterns and if if you're good and Verbalize no, that's another word you put variables on all of this Um, you would be able to reuse in the project and just style it as you like So layout pattern again, that's something we reuse and we like to use one kind of grid And so we reuse this grid But in the end we end up with maybe the same classes saying no in this situation Not saying in rose columns, for example, if you tend to follow the The way of of foundation But here it gets interesting so the functional patterns as I just said that are the actual reusable elements We we came up with and we named them bricks departments floors and footer because we have a quite Eloquent colleague he came up with this idea and yeah, why not from constructions and it kind of kind of works fast So uh once again, we had the teaser as you remember the teaser is just plain css and the teaser news may look the very same in the code itself And it uses a modifier in this case to have a big or it uses the teaser view modifier to show a small Or a simple or a full view You can do this with two different tweak templates. You can put this inside one template. This will change how You would try to reuse it There are certain ways of doing this. This is this is exactly what we are trying to achieve. This is this template has been initially Start inside drupal folder, right? And now we are going to separate such logic such presentation logic to the separate system to the style guide And then in drupal we can just include this thing without Knowledge of its internal presentation And if you go a little bit bigger we saw the uh list of Uh, I saw the news wall and inside the news wall We saw the include and that's that's the fun thing at this point So this include actually is able to work in fractal as well as in drupal so, um just Think away the wall template concatenation back in there. That's not important. So you just have one, um One route To your template file. This route is relative, but it works relatively in Fractal as well as in drupal and that's the reason why you can reuse the elements And if you are able to actually iterate over those elements, you actually can reuse those elements in both of them And uh, yeah, the most important thing. Um, I did not do this slider is, um How to actually put all the the assets in there? Um, so that's also something we Will discuss later But the most important thing is of course we need to have JavaScript in there and Having actually the drupal behavior Style actually works out for us. So, um in this Fractal Style guide, we actually only include the drupal js Which nothing else does nothing else than iterate over the drupal behaviors object and then just Fires every function that's there at the attach function. That's there Shoot me if I'm saying something wrong and this can be done in fractal as well or in whatever JavaScript thing so we can actually have the uh JavaScript running inside the fractal Stygard as well as in drupal and reuse the JavaScript Hey And yeah, and so the rest is actually at this point, um It would be nice and you can do this We have we have done this in the other project Is lots of mocking and that's the reason you would normally try to reuse your components and to mock this Components that you can actually reuse those components and don't copy over the whole html fine The going back So the real life challenges we face face so far and that's really real life challenges. Okay um, of course, there are problems and those problems can be solved and You just need to address them a sort of thing. I am trying to do at the moment So, uh We said we want to be decoupled, but what's the real life real life is that the backend actually is defined So when your company goes for drupal it goes for May I say a bad word type of three and um It rarely changes, but of course there are situations. Uh, we are not only uh fully Going for drupal but other components javascript libraries and so on we can use this there as well So and of course we have to organize ourselves in the local domain and this highly depends on the team So we came we came up with the idea of bricks departments and floors Not to the fact that we are so eloquent and fancy, but we realized for example, we took heavy use of paragraphs Talking with a front ender about paragraphs and that we want to have a paragraph there and this paragraph should have an image No, it's a paragraph. It should have like Something else or is it just text a normal text is like a block quote rate and a block quote paragraph You have a block quote paragraph. So you're mixing up words all that all the way. It is Very important that you know what you're talking about and and that point you actually need to find your own language As well as drupal has of course complex modules like views red crumbs and navigation and we ha ha Need to mock them. So as I just showed you actually Mocking breadcrumbs or incorporating breadcrumbs is quite complex It's just a list, you know, so it's more easy to just copy and paste the the list into your template files instead of Using faker trying to iterate over an object to to randomize the The items and to randomize the contents and then see that your actual Rapper is has the right class and so on and all that stuff. So navigation. We actually mock at this point For fractal, but you could also use an api doing this, but then this api needs to be there So we came up with the three extremes. I was mentioning before so we actually have our reusable content components which Live in more or less the middle of the thing. So we have the elements that are for your site Too small As I was saying so actual paragraphs actual block quotes actual blocks and so on you don't Reuse you don't incorporate those as tweak templates. You just use them give them a class and use this class And on the other hand, you have got these two big complex things like for example views and Going More more bigger Those you probably mock and those are more Important to decline than to you in the end because if you have a whole picture of the website That's this where you go. You can think about it a little bit The other way so going for a css framework that kind of defines you what your look your links and your blocks look like And on the other hand you have your documentation of the whole project and see what's the demo page So if you're paid to do a demo page even before launch It's fine to do that in there and you can mix in text. That's totally random and the client would realize. Hey I thought our real text life example would not work, but now it does Okay So we are still searching for the right solution, but for there is ui patterns and I highly recommend to check this out Because the next step is to actually get rid of this host template pattern So what we wanted to show you today was the actually users usage of Fractal as well using it in Drupal and Drupal being a content delivery Thing me Yes So and the the actual idea is to make it the compound folder So fractal calls this folder as compounds and it's sometimes good to have different names for that As independent as possible and as self explaining as possible So think about dependency management. This needs to be there for those compounds as well But it needs to be there for Drupal to understand. So it needs to be there that I can Target the javascript file. I can target the the svg file in there This also needs to be a solution for that as well as a css file when I need it and Only then And of course, there's more so when you're thinking about front-end and you At some point have to make a decision between http2 and http1 short form h2 h1 Which gives you also a performance Inside to this thing and I just learned that http1 can be also a very good performance thing as well And as I just mentioned how to include your css It can be also good to have your Compound so your component to actually inline your css with a link statement just above the component and not let Drupal do all that stuff versus a I put everything together And compile it and just serve this one and of course javascript inclusion It may be Framework agnostic. So it would be nice to not only use Drupal behaviors there, but something else There is probably a solution for that. But yeah, and so why should we use it? Why to use living style gate? It can simplify real life while building the project during the whole stages Because you can work on design Independently from Drupal you can create various pages like tassel show us recently So we can build almost the whole website actually without any Drupal We can show with the client we can get feedback early We can make several iterations before we go to Drupal It will save us a time resources and it will give us more flexibility Because it's completely independent and it doesn't require any additional technologies. It's only no gs server and that's it as a result This leads to better communication with clients because we can identify the problems in design early We can identify problems in content relation probably as well earlier and To react early as well. So The whole communication between Us and client during the development process will be more smooth and clear and you will be more fun because You know, you can even make small changes in the design right in fractal, right in Near the client sitting near with you for example Of course with Would be more hard to do with Drupal because It's a more complex system and it requires more knowledge And as we already said earlier It can be used not only for frontend development and for communication with clients It also can be used for by desires as a Style guide as a content managers So we can see what we can do and how we can Layout where content from page to page So it's kind of a visual language between the whole team and between team and client And one important thing about this separation It simplifies the way how we can test and maintain maintain our responsive design because Just imagine if you have a complex Drupal setup with a bunch of templates and CSS and JavaScript and so on and You can just save a lot of time for Changes and for preview of these changes to the design because When you change in the templates when you change into the JavaScript or styles You're actually doesn't change don't change any content in Drupal. So Drupal Uh Represents a component library in some way. So the separation between content storage system and Style guide system Is great and it help us to maintain responsive design and to save time to verify our changes in the real life Of course, we can use with while prototyping and during the development process as well And on ongoing maintenance of active project, of course That leads us to the next sentence that It's it's it's a false meaning that we can design the whole project once and when Reuse the existing design until production. It just doesn't work because We should be flexible enough. This should be agile Especially when we are designing Page website with various templates and layouts and we need to be able to apply changes quickly Not just to code but to design because Sometimes when it's came to real life, we can see that our design just doesn't work in this case and we should reconsider it again I hope you can yeah the point and the point is Yeah, we showed how to use it in Drupal, but in the end If we would like to have another component so say for example, we put another angular component on the website that needs to look alike Something we have in the website there as well We can put it in there and we can reuse the components there just as we have seen with the Novata's website. Actually, this is a so-called living style guide for Up to Drupal seven eight a type of three language as well as a completely independent Framework they reuse and so you can build something that is totally framework agnostic and this would be this is also a very good Take away And of course you can take it for your next project as I said you Start building your components to be reusable in the next project So our personal lessons learned and decoupling is first of all the cms still demands Some difference from the front end So actually in Drupal, I really like and it's important to me to get to the content So the quick edit or the other packing functionalities need to be addressed nevertheless and you have to face them as well And sometimes there needs to be additional container But right now Drupal is very very flexible in the seeming thing as well as accessibility topics Most are mostly addressed by the content management system and brings the front end that are back to earth and Yeah, so that's also something we really need to focus on and Yeah, the cms structures from front end code. So It is very important to have an Common understanding of in this case Drupal speak. I just mentioned the example of Paragraphs, which is a module name but kind of differentiates to normal front end or html structure, but Having a block having a view understanding what a node is to be something coming up Again and again That's something that really is a good content structure coming from Drupal And not everybody needs to understand it right away. So think about that and view modes, of course is also a very very Important thing for front enders to understand that they need to limit their cell themselves for the content and to imagine that content may reoccur And yeah, and as I just said front end is never as independent as implied So always keep in mind the application layer and of course maintenance will mess up things That's the reason we actually change to fractal Having something like kss. So where you Document your actual styling inside the CSS code scss code is kind of cumbersome and Yeah, probably you will no that's not you will and this will get outdated So make yourself an outsourced documentation saying in the end saying okay if we use a Building system with grids for example stick to the naming conventions of block and rows for example, you can Think of buttons always been buttons, but not call them btn in one in one project and call them button or whatever in the other And yeah, try to minimize minimize the additional information around the component make it self explaining and of course keep discipline That's yeah, and I learned this for my last project Doing this alone is really sucks. It is not worth it. So it's a teamwork flaw If we really try to do this alone, don't do it You're so much faster You're so much more structured and you would understand Your project as well and everybody else will understand your project much more faster than doing this with a living star guide So it's too complex and it's not a whole low-hanging fruit for us. It takes more than I don't know at the moment like five projects to slowly adapt and realize what quirks are there and yeah, so It really is so going further means that you all are interested in of course UI patterns in this talk is today and and there's also in lots of other topics Regarding the coupling Drupal and those slides are at slides.com And of course you need to contribute to our sprints And please help us to get better and better If i'm to jump you on on stage, please tell me so And thank you very much. We are happy to have you and We're now open for questions