We <3 Drupal 8• Released 3 Sites on Drupal 8
• amazeelabs.com
• Drupal 8 Alpha 6
• drupal.com
• Client site
• Business Version of drupal.org
• sgg-ssup.ch
• Client site
Internationalization• Drupal 7
• 29 Modules for full translatability
• Drupal 8
• 4 Modules for full translatability
• and they are all in Core!
Content Management• New content form + preview
• Wysiwyg
• In-place editing
• Multilingual & Accessible at its core
• Tours for contextual help
Everything is an entity• Fieldable
• Same APIs
• Better integration into Contrib
• Config vs Content Entities
Site Building• Views in Core
• Fields in core: Date, Link, Email, Telephone, Entity Reference,
• 100% responsive, mobile-first (includes admin backend)
• Form Display UI (like display modes)
• Blocks, supercharged
• Configuration management
• RESTful at the core
Drupal 8 in terms of sitebuilding is awesome. After a short time you are able to build almost everything out of the box. Sometimes you have to think around the corner to get your result. And sometimes you get stuck because of some nasty bugs.
Boris Baldinger Sitebuilder
Configuration Management• Fully in Core
• exportable
• importable
• Show differences
• New Workflows
Proudly invented elsewhere• Symfony2
• Assetic
• Composer
• Doctrine
• EasyRDF
• Twig
• Backbone
• jQuery
• jQuery UI
• YAML
• HAL/REST
• Guzzle
• PHPUnit
• CKEditor
Migrate in Core• update.php
• D6 support!
• D7 support!
• Contrib defines their own Migrate workflows
Developers• OOP architecture / Symfony-based
• New routing system (hook_menu == gone)
• Configuration management
• Entity API
• Proudly invented elsewhere
• Migrate in Core
Overall, I have really really good feelings about D8. Previously we said "Drupal way" about many coding things. Now it's the "right way"! Drupal core now uses bleeding edge technologies, and that makes work really interesting.
Alex Tkachev Backend Developer
CSS & JS• drupal_add_js/css() removed
• No JS loaded by default!
• Speeeeeed
• Declare libraries
• Attach libraries
More libraries• jQuery UI Touch Punch
• Backbone, Underscore
• modernizr
• domReady
• html5shiv & classList
In my experience with Drupal 8 (and on this project in particular), working with Twig templates is much more concise and straightforward to code than a D7 .tpl file. As a developer with only basic PHP skills, the Twig syntax is easier to grasp.
Kathryn McClintock Frontend Developer
Next Steps• 6 Critical Upgrade Blockers
• Upgradable Betas
• Head2Head!!
• Single scripts for each new Head Version
• https://www.drupal.org/project/head2head
• Beta2Beta
• Group of Scripts
Next Steps• 42 Critical Bugs
• Release Candidate 1
• New Critical Bugs?
• Release Candidate 2
• New Critical Bugs?
• Release Candidate 3
• ...
• Drupal 8.0.0
Should I use it?• YES
• + if you can debug code
• + you will need Head2Head for upgrading (or wait till Betas are upgradable)
Future• Drupal 8.0.0
• Drupal 8.0.1, 8.0.2, ...
• Patches, no new features
• Drupal 8.1.0, 8.2.0
• New features
• Backwards compatible!
• Drupal 9.0.0
• No Backwards compatibility anymore