Drupal 8
site building
DrupalCamp Vienna 2013 - Training by drunomics
Hi!
Welcome
fago & dasjo
Agenda
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Drupal 8 overview
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Setup & introduce our use case
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The new editing experience
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Views in Core
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Image handling
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Taking advantage of Entity & Field API improvements
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Blocks & layouts
- Theming with Twig
- CMI - config in files
- 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.
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It's easier to use.
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It's easier to find things.
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It's more accessible.
HTML 5 & Mobile
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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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