Drupal 8

What You Need to Know

October 12, 2013 — DrupalCamp Michigan

Wayne Eaker / @wayneeaker

Overview

• Drupal 8 Development Process
• What's New For:
  • End Users
  • Site Builders
  • Themers
  • Developers
• State of Drupal 8 Development
• How You Can Help

I'm Wayne Eaker

zengenuity on drupal.org

@wayneeaker on Twitter

Acknowledgements

This presentation combines information from presentations,
documentation, blog posts, IRC discussions by:

• Angela Byron (webchick)
• Larry Garfield (Crell)
• Jess Myrbo (xjm)
• Kris Vanderwater (EclipseGc)
• Kristof De Jaeger (swentel)
• Gábor Hojtsy (Gábor Hojtsy)
• Matthew Tift (mtift)
• Dries Buytaert (Dries)
• Many, many others.

Extensive Footnotes and Links: http://wayneeaker.com/drupal8

Drupal 8 Development

Drupal 8 Initiatives

• Mobile
• Configuration Management
• HTML5
• Layouts
• Multilingual
• Views in Core
• Web Services

Unofficial Drupal 8 Initiatives

• Twig
• Spark: UI improvements
• Many Others

2.5 Years Later

• 1600+ contributors to Drupal 8
  (nearly double of Drupal 7)
• Most changes of any Drupal release
• Drupal 8 positions Drupal to be a content engine
  across multiple platforms (not just
  for websites anymore)

What's New?

End Users

Mobile: Responsive Design

Drupal 7

Drupal 8

Mobile: Responsive Design

Drupal 7

Drupal 8

Mobile: Responsive Design

Drupal 8

Mobile: Responsive Design

Drupal 7

Drupal 8

WYSIWYG in Core

WYSIWYG in Core

Drupal 7

WYSIWYG in Core

Drupal 8

Inline editing

File Field Multiselect

HTML5 Form Elements

• URL
• Email
• Tel
• Date
• Color
• Range
• Number
• Search

Tour Module

Site Builders

Directory structure

Where do downloaded modules and themes go?

Drupal 7

Drupal 8

Directory structure

Configuration Management

Configuration Management

Drupal 7: Features Module

Configuration Management

Drupal 8

• New config system
• Stored in YAML files, not DB
• Can be version controlled

 

Configuration Management

Don't hack your active config!!!

Blocks Are Entities

Blocks Are Entities

Blocks Are Entities

Multiple instances of the same block!!

Blocks Are Entities

Blocks are fieldable!

Blocks Are Entities

Blocks are revisionable!

Multilingual Improvements

Multilingual Improvements

No longer requires a bazillion modules to translate user UX and content

Multilingual Improvements

English not required.

Multilingual Improvements

Download interface translations through update system.

Multilingual Improvements

Select which fields can be translated.

Views in Core!!

Views in Core!!

Other Drupal 8 Views Features

• Views are exportable with the
  configuration management system
• Responsive HTML Tables
• Views Bulk Operations in core

Views in Core!!

System pages are views

Web Services

Web Services

Drupal 7

Drupal 8

Web Services for Entities

Web Services for Views

Web Services

Themers

Twig: A New Templating Engine

• Symfony component
• No PHP
• Easier to read
• No SQL queries
• Templates in "templates" folder

Twig

Drupal 7: node.tpl.php

Twig

Drupal 8: node.html.twig

IE 9+ Required

IE 6, 7, and 8 are unsupported.

Module Developers

Major Rewrite of Drupal

PHP 5.3: OO PHP

Drupal 7

PHP 5.3: OO PHP

Drupal 8

PHP 5.3: OO PHP

Drupal 8

PHP 5.3: OO PHP

Drupal 8

Namespaces: PSR-0

Namespaces: PSR-0

• Allow for autoload of classes
• Symfony class autoloader
• Goodbye module_load_include()
• Folders, folders, folders!

BookController.php is in /core/modules/book/lib/Drupal/book/Controller

Module Files

Drupal 7

Drupal 8

Routing

• Uses Symfony HTTP routing components
• URL routes defined in YAML file
• hook_menu() used only for visible menu items.
  Reference the routes from YAML file.
• hook_menu() -> modulename.routing.yml + hook_menu()

Routing

Drupal 7

Routing

Drupal 8: book.routing.yml

Routing

Drupal 8: book.module

Dependency Injection

• Replaceable services for dependencies
• Keeps code decoupled
• Services passed to objects by injection when object is created
• Allows replacement of core subsystems with configuration
• Makes it easier to test with mock objects or test multiple subsystem implementations.
• Examples: database connector, configuration manager, translation service
• Services define in modulename.services.yml

Dependency Injection

book.services.yml

Dependency Injection

BookManager.php

Annotations

Documentation: Now with more code

Annotations

Symfony Components

• HttpFoundation and HttpKernel
• Routing
• EventDispatcher
• DependencyInjection
• ClassLoader
• Yaml
• Twig
• Serializer

Other Non-Drupal Components

• Composer: Dependency manager
• Guzzle: HTTP Client
• Assetic: Asset manager (CSS and JS aggregation)
• PHPUnit: Testing
• PSR/Log: Consistent logging from components and Drupal

Drupal 8: A Modern PHP App

By adopting coding standards from the non-Drupal
PHP community, we can integrate and contribute to their work
without having to re-invent everything to fit our Drupalisms.

A Game Plan For Devs

• Start now looking at Drupal 8
• Get familiar with OOP, if you're not
• If you have modules, start porting them
  (realizing you may have redo this later)
• Give feedback on DX to core devs
• Mentor others

Drupal 8 Timeline

Drupal 8 Status

Drupal 8 Status

• API not frozen, but slushy
• Still lots of issues to fix
• DX improvements underway
• Refactoring ongoing
• New Import API / Migrate in core

How Can You Help?

• Fix critical issues
• Review / test patches
• Re-roll or fix failed patches
• Documentation
  Battle Plan: https://drupal.org/node/2107875
• Twig conversions
  https://drupal.org/node/1757550
• Migrate initiative
  http://goo.gl/WnTOB0

How to get started?

• Core Mentoring Hours
  https://drupal.org/core-mentoring
• Start upgrading your modules
  • DrupalCon Portland Session
  • Pants Module

Drupal 8 Release Date

When Can You Use Drupal 8?

Drupal 8: What You Need to Know
October 12, 2013 — DrupalCamp Michigan
Slides and Links: http://wayneeaker.com/drupal8

Wayne Eaker / @wayneeaker