Learnings from our launched Drupal 8 Core customer projects

Michael - Schnitzel

Head Technology Amazee Labs

our journey

April 2014

amazeelabs.com in Drupal 8 Alpha

2 Languages

September 2014

drupal.com in Drupal 8 Beta

1 Language (yet)

January 2015

sgg-ssup.ch in Drupal 8 Beta
4 Languages

May 2015

amazee.com in Drupal 8 Beta

Currently

Moar!

TL; DR;

It works!

It's great!

You have to be creative

Nobody want's go back to Drupal 7

Editors

We didn't tell them ;)

And they didn't realize

They really like the new layout

Multilingual

Everything!

Translatable out of Core

Some issues:

Browser negotiation doesn't work with caching #2430335
Entity Translation & Revisions having a hard time #2465901

Sitebuilding

Feels right & complete

Block instances & Custom Block Library are confusing

A lot of contrib missing

be creative

Custom Block + Entity References
=
Nodequeue!

SEO

nothing

Drupal 7 Sitebuilders pick it up in 2 hours

Configuration Management

The thing we've all waited for

No help on how to use

no workflow for dev > staging > prod
staging folder is confusing
active folder is empty
no way to prevent configuration changes on prod

Merge CMI changes

Needs to happen in Git

or: drush config-merge

really frustrating

let's fix!

#1831818
Test, improve, and document git config import workflow

#2487588

Rename CMI import/export directory "staging", as it is confused with staging environments

#2487592

CMI: don't ship with a default "active" directory that is empty in most Drupal installations

Backend

OOP all the way!

it's great

Entity API
Plugins
Services

No IDE?

No Drupal 8.

No Debugger?
No Drupal 8.

Most examples found online are obsolete

drupal.org/project/examples

Non Drupal Developers

Can start work right away

Custom Modules

Architecture really important

Contrib Architecture Mentoring Hours?

Frontend

Twig <3

No need for
Contrib Base Theme

Hidden Superpower:

Extends & Blocks

Task

Remove the H1 on Frontpage

<div class="layout-container">

  <main class="layout-main" role="main">
    {{ messages }}
    {{ page.help }}
    <div class="layout-content">
      {{ page.highlighted }}

      {% block page_title %}
        {{ title_prefix }}
        {% if title %}
          <h1>{{ title }}</h1>
        {% endif %}
        {{ title_suffix }}
      {% endblock %}

      {{ tabs }}

      {{ page.content }}


    </div>{# /.layout-content #}

  </main>

</div>{# /.layout-container #}

page.html.twig

{% extends 'themes/sgg8/templates/page.html.twig' %}

{% block page_title %}
{% endblock %}

page--front.html.twig

Upgrades

before beta9:

hard

after beta9:
Head2Head <3

drupal.org/project/head2head

patches for each Head
beta2beta

Contrib

We're getting there

Contrib D8

No way to know if it works from d.o Project Page
Try out
Broken? Probably easy to fix. Write a patch!

d8status.md-systems.ch

bluespark.com/status-top-100-contributed-modules-drupal-8

Migration

not done yet

D6 > D8 ✔

D7 > D8 ✘

easy migration

D7 Nodes -> D8 Nodes

200 lines custom code

my module status?

d8upgrade.org

You should all start using it

if its a new site
or if only need to migrate some content
if you don't need heavy contrib modules

more?

help?

groups.drupal.org/drupal-8-production-sites

Living on the edge - running D8 in production

3.45pm - 4.45pm Room 503 Mediacurrent

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