Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
This talk will show what has been accomplished in the past year for core javascript and explain what's left for the last few months before code freeze. A few topics you can expect to show up: Performance Which JS library got in core and why Tools and workflow JS clean-up As well as some future-facing questions: New policies for third party JS API changes (PHP and JS) How can contrib deal with JS-related changes What's still missing for D8 There will be mention of some crazy ideas that might work from contrib.
Citation preview
What's up with javascript & Drupal
Théodore 'nod_' Biadala
JS Maintainer for Drupal coreTechnical consultant @ Acquia
Frontendunited, London 2013
Who?
nod_ — February 2012(cue months of wishing for another maintainer)
seutje — August 2012
jessebeach — September 2012
8
Library Upgrade policy
Core will ship withlatest version*
Library Upgrade policy
Core will ship withlatest version*
Tools
testing
fat module
Community
Impression of a JS dev by a Drupal dev
Webchick learning Javascript
Michael Schmid, CC-BY 2.0
Javascript Clean-up#1415788
Script dependencies
hook_library_info() {
$lib['myscript'] = array(
'js' => array($path . '/somefile.js' => array()),
'dependencies' => array(
array('system', 'jquery'),
array('system', 'drupal'),
arrary('system', 'drupalSettings'),
),
);
return $lib;
}
performance?
Editor: IE10
node/1
add/article
node/add
node
0 50 100 150 200 250
JSCSSHTML
Front-end time (ms)
Editor: IE10 – No toolbar
node/1
add/article
node/add
node
0 50 100 150 200 250
JSCSSHTML
Front-end time (ms)
Visitor: IE10
node/1
node
0 50 100 150 200 250
JSCSSHTML
Front-end time (ms)
In Drupal 8
JS libraries will be upgraded
Declare all your dependencies
Core front-end performance is… ok!
