About Me

Arpit Rastogi

@arpit_rastogi10

Drupal Developer @Srijan Goa

Agenda

• Drupal 8 overview
• Content Management Features
• Site Building Features
• Configuration Management

Drupal 8 overview

Drupal Release Timeline.

Where is Drupal 8 currently?

• Drupal release strategies 
• Current Drupal 8 release
• Current critical issues 

Drupal 8 Directory Structure Changes

Content Management Features

• New Content Form and better preview options.
• WYSIWYG out of the box.
• In place editing
• Multilingual at its core.
• Tours for contextual help.

Ckeditor in core!

• No more struggle in finding right version of libraries and module installation.
• Select text editor straight  under "Text formats and editors"  configuration.
• Drag & drop toolbar configuration for CKEditor
• Nice API for registering additional CKEditor plugins, enhancing CKEditor configuration form.

• Advanced Content Filter
• Everything that is not allowed is removed
• Works also when pasting content – WYSIWYG!

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Reference

• Ckeditor in D8

Site Building Features

• Views in core.
• New field types are introduced to core date, link, email, telephone.
• 100% responsive
• Form display UI
• Blocks are supercharged.
• Configuration Management.
• Restful at the core.

Views in core

• Query builder UI.
• Was that too hard too install views?
• 70% of drupal sites use views.
• With views in core we can have better content, people listing page.
• Learnability: First-time users of Drupal often don't realize what is possible with contributed modules. Having Views in core will mean that new site builders can more quickly understand Drupal's capabilities out-of-the-box.

• Contributor experience: Hundreds of contributed modules rely on the Views API, so these modules are blocked on Views for each release.
• Stability: If Views is in core, changes that cause Views regressions will be core release blockers, and Views bugs will be treated as core bugs.

Entity Fields Improvements

• New field types are introduced as email, link, date, telephone.
• Comments are now added as fields, multiple comments form can be added to node forms.
• User profile picture is an image field with better control.
• Bulk upload option with image field.

Entity Form Experience

• Manage Form Display UI.
• No more hook_form_alter to hide fields.
• More control over user registration/edit form.

Blocks are supercharged!

• Blocks are entities now.
• Attach blocks to node via ER field.
• Add fields to blocks
• Define custom block types similar to content types.
• Now place same block on multiple region without need of multiblock module.

Configuration Management

• Content and Configurations are now well separated in D8.
• All configurations sit under sites/default/files/ and are easily exportable to stg/prod.
• With help of version control we can ensure we are not overriding configurations.

Rest API at core.

• REST is one of the most popular ways of making Web Services work.
• REST utilizes HTTP methods, such as GET, POST, and DELETE.
• Use case can be a module app reading content from your database using GET method.
• Restful Web Services Module(control) + Rest UiI(contrib)

Sites on Drupal 8

Thank You