Drupal 8 Preview: What to Expect

Drupal 8 PreviewAngie “webchick” Byron

2013-12-09Tuesday, 10 December, 13

About Me

Tuesday, 10 December, 13

Agenda

• What's coming in Drupal 8 for…o End users and clients?o Site builders?o Designers and themers?o Developers?

• ...where possible, with live demos! :)• When can I use it?• What can I do now to prepare?


Changes for end-users and clients


Authoring Experience Improvements


WYSIWYG in Core!


In-Place Editing


New Content Creation Page


Real Previews (in progress)

http://drupal.org/node/1510544




Let’s see it in action!


Mobile Improvements


"Mobile First"


Responsive themes, images, and breakpoints


Mobile-friendly administration


Responsive Preview Bar(in progress)

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https://drupal.org/node/1741498


Responsive Preview Bar(in progress)


Accessibility

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOc1km2uEc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOc1km2uEc

Mobile-first “overlay”


Changes for site builders


Improved Data Modeling Tools:New field typesEntity Reference Date/Datetime

…plus, Link, Phone, Email, Comments!


Improved Data Modeling Tools:New entity types

Fieldable blocks Fieldable contact forms


Form displays: customize the look and feel of data entry forms


Views in Core!


Views = fully customizable...

• Admin listings• Sidebar content• Image galleries• Slideshows• REST output• ...with 0 lines of code!


Restyled administration interface(in progress)




Multilingual Improvements


Community translation downloads


Language data tracking expanded


Translation on (almost) everything


Changes for designers and themers


HTML5 Form Elements


New front-end libraries


Twig Example: node.html.twig<article id="node-{{ node.id }}" class="{{ attributes.class }} clearfix"{{ attributes }}>

{{ title_prefix }} {% if not page %} <h2{{ title_attributes }}> <a href="{{ node_url }}" rel="bookmark">{{ label }}</a> </h2> {% endif %} {{ title_suffix }}

{% if display_submitted %} <footer> {{ user_picture }} <p class="submitted">{{ submitted }}</p> </footer> {% endif %}

<div{{ content_attributes }}> {# We hide links now so that we can render them later. #} {% hide(content.links) %} {{ content }} </div>

{{ content.links }}</article>

1. HTML5 tags2. {{ print a variable }}3. {# comments #}4. {% logic(stuff) %}


Native Schema.org Output


Killed support for IE 6 & 7(and most of 8)


Changes for developers

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Configuration Management

dev stage prod


dev

live


Drush integration for automation!


Web Services


Symfony Framework

• HttpFoundation• HttpKernel• Dependency

Injection• EventDispatcher• Routing• Yaml


GETting data out of Drupal:RESTful Web Services module


GETting data into Drupal: Guzzle$client = \Drupal::httpClient();$config = \Drupal::config('3rdparty.settings');

// Format arguments for passing in URL.$arg = urlencode($argument);

// Pull data from 3rd party's REST API.$api_key = $config->get('api_key');$request = $client->get("http://3rdparty.com/$arg/?key=$api_key");

// Get the response and do something with it.$response = $request->send();$json = $response->json();

...


"Getting off the island"


• Much more modern, object-oriented code (classes, inheritance, interfaces, etc.)

• Embracing latest PHP standards (e.g. PSR-0, namespaces, traits)

• Using many “best of breed” external libraries: Composer, PHPUnit, Guzzle, Zend Feed Component, Assetic...


Catch all of the changes!

https://drupal.org/list-changes




Ok, so when can I use this awesome stuff?!

"WHEN IT'S READY."


Drupal 8 Timeline


When is "When it's ready?"

• When we have 0 critical issues, we roll a release candidate.

• When we’ve shipped a release candidate that didn’t add new criticals, we ship 8.0!

• Hoping for 8.0 mid-2014, but still lots to do.


Where do we need help?

• Finish API conversions• Performance • Developer Experience• Migration path• DOCUMENTATION!• EXAMPLES!• TOOLS!

• TESTING, TESTING, TESTING!

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http://drupal.org/contribute

http://drupal.org/contribute

When should I use Drupal 8?

Keep your eyes on https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal:

Alphas, aka *right now*!(still have time to

fix APIs!)

Betas/RCs(~early-mid

2014)

Once these lines cross

(~2015)

Platform’s proven, but community’s

looking forward to Drupal 9.

Module DeveloperEarly Adopter /

Launch in mid-2014+

Late Adopter / Launch in late

2014+Conservative


https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal

New release proposal (in progress)




What about the upgrade path?• Work actively ongoing to add content migration

path from both D6 and D7 to D8 ("Migrate in core"): https://groups.drupal.org/imp

• To check status of contrib module upgrades, see: https://drupal.org/project/upgrade_status

• For help w/ custom module upgrades, see: https://drupal.org/project/coder

• To avoid upgrade pain, stick to well-vetted contributed modules over custom code.

• Other tips: https://www.acquia.com/blog/getting-your-site-ready-drupal-8


https://groups.drupal.org/imp

https://groups.drupal.org/imp

https://drupal.org/project/upgrade_status

https://drupal.org/project/upgrade_status

https://drupal.org/project/coder

https://drupal.org/project/coder

https://www.acquia.com/blog/getting-your-site-ready-drupal-8






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D8 Readiness Resources• D8 Blogs – With “how-to” topics ranging from “This week in Core”, OOP in D8, Migration, Spark and much more! http://www.acquia.com/blog/drupal-8

• D8 Webinars – Learn more about Multi-lingual, OOP etc in D8 - http://www.acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars

• D8 Live Panel Discussions with Google Hangouts – http://www.acquia.com/resources/podcasts/acquia-podcast-93-power-php-meet-michelangelo-van-dam

• D8 Updates – Get the latest and the greatest in D8 on our developer page –

http://www.acquia.com/drupal-developers


http://www.acquia.com/blog/drupal-8






http://www.acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars






http://www.acquia.com/resources/podcasts/acquia-podcast-93-power-php-meet-michelangelo-van-dam














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