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

June 2015

gottardo2016.ch
Drupal 8 Beta - 5 Languages

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 ;)

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!

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

Merge CMI changes

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

Frontend

Twig <3

No need for
Contrib Base Theme

Hidden Superpower:

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

easy migration

D7 Nodes -> D8 Nodes

200 lines custom code

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