Drupal 8What is there for site builders?
Ashish Thakur,Tech Lead Srijan Technologies
@Ashish_Thakur
Topics Included
● Drupal 8 release dates and prerequisites.
● Drupal Development using Vagrant.
● File Structure in Drupal 8.
● Modules added and removed in Drupal 8.
● Architecture changes in blocks.
● Tour module for Drupal 8.
● Responsive UI in Drupal 8.
● How to contribute to Drupal 8.
Drupal 8 release dates
● Development Phase - December 1, 2012
● Feature Freeze - February 18, 2013
● Alpha Release(drupal 8.0-alpha12) – May 28, 2014
● References:
● https://www.drupal.org/node/3060/release?api_ver
sion%5B%5D=7234● https://www.drupal.org/core/release-cycle
Drupal 8 prerequisites
● PHP 5.4 and above.
● Drush 7.
● https://github.com/drush-ops/drush
Drupal Developement Using Vagrant
● Vagrant is a tool for building complete development
environments.
● Makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the
past.
● Vagrant Drupal Development d.o project:
https://www.drupal.org/project/vdd
● References
● http://www.vagrantup.com
● https://www.drupal.org/project/vdd
File Structure and Modules
● Drupal 8: Not invented here, proudly found else where.
● Contrib modules included in core
● Views: http://drupal.org/project/views
● Migrate: http://drupa.org/project/migrate
● Ckeditor
● Some new cool modules
● Tour
● Modules removed
● Blog, Trigger, OpenID
Blocks are entities
● Blocks are entities now.
● Blocks in Drupal 7 Days.
● https://www.drupal.org/project/multiblock
● https://www.drupal.org/project/context
● These modules were used to enable a block in multiple
regions.
● Blocks in Drupal 8.
● Enable blocks in multiple regions out of the box :).
Glimpse of Tour Module.
● Allows interactive help.
● Comes with an API which allows you to build tours.
Come for the software, stay for the community
● Issue Queues: https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?
status=All&categories=All
● Join hands with contributed modules maintainers
● http://d8rules.org/
● Search API: http://drupal.org/project/search_api
● Examples: http://drupal.org/project/examples
Ashish Thakur@Ashish_Thakur
Thank You!
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