Drupal 8
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DrupalCamp Vienna 2013 - Training by drunomics

Hi!

Welcome


fago & dasjo

Agenda


  1. Drupal 8 overview
  2. Setup & introduce our use case
  3. The new editing experience
  4. Views in Core
  5. Image handling
  6. Taking advantage of Entity & Field API improvements
  7. Blocks & layouts
  8. Theming with Twig
  9. CMI - config in files
  10. Multilingual

    Drupal 8

    It's not ready ... but ready to get started!

    UI/UX Improvements


    Drupal 8 continues the trend of updating the user interface and improving overall user experience.

    • It's easier to use.
    • It's easier to find things.
    • It's more accessible.

    HTML 5 & Mobile

    • All core themes use HTML5.
    • Markup has been improved throughout core.
    • New HTML5 elements: phone, email, url, number, and date.
    • Next generation enhancements with Modernizr.js
    • Dropped support for IE 6 & 7.
    • Responsive / Mobile friendly
    • Accessibility improvements

    Initiatives

    • Official
      • Configuration Management (CMI)
      • Web Services (WSCCI)
      • Blocks & Layouts
      • Mobile
      • Multilingual
    • And many more
      • Views in Core
      • Entity NG
      • Twig, JavaScript clean-up, Design, HTML 5
      • Spark

    Administration & editing experience

    • Improved installer
    • Improved edit form
    • HTML 5 form elements
    • WYSIWYG in core
    • In-Place editing
    • Tiny helpers: 
      • Module filter
      • Tour module

    Views in Core

    • Easily build lists of content anywhere.
    • Edit existing lists (admin_views):
      • Front page.
      • Content administration.
    • Bulk operations in core (VB)

    Image handling & responsiveness

    • Imagecache in core
    • Responsive images
      • Picture module
      • Breakpoints module

    Taking advantage of Entity & Field API improvements

    Theming with Twig

    Drupal 7 Theming
    pain points

    • Syntax
    • Inconsistency
    • Complexity
    • Redundancy
    • Security

    Changes

    • New template engine
    • New theme hooks
    • Everything renderable
    • Markup Utility Functions
    • Theme component library

    Twig wins

    • consistency
    • auto sanitization
    • beautiful templates
    • safe templates (contemplate)
    • portable to front-end: TwigJs
      https://github.com/schmittjoh/twig.js

    Blocks & layouts

    Scotch, not Whiskey!

    • Drupal 7
      • Panels, Context, Display suite, Beans, ...
    • Plans
      • Isolated block rendering
      • Contexts/data sources
      • Condition plugins
      • Displays & layouts

    Title

    Test me now

    By JoDa

    Test me now

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