Drupal 8: Huge wins, a Bigger Community, and why you (and I) will Love it
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The document discusses the benefits of Drupal 8 over Drupal 7. Drupal 8 embraces modern PHP standards and libraries, allowing for easier code sharing, improved quality, and new possibilities. Key benefits include leveraging libraries like Symfony, Twig and others with no development effort, improved developer experience through object oriented code and standards, and the ability to more easily create new types of applications and distributions. Drupal 8 innovates away from outdated Drupal 7 technologies and practices to build a stronger, more interoperable community.
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- 1. @weaverryan
- 2. PHP Tutorial Screencasts Drupal 8: Huge wins, a Bigger Community, & why you (and I) will love it
- 3. PHP Tutorial Screencasts knplabs.com github.com/weaverryan • Lead contributor to the Symfony documentation ! • KnpLabs US - Symfony consulting, training, Kumbaya ! • Writer for KnpUniversity.com screencasts Buenos Dias!
- 4. ! ! ! ! ! ! • Husband of the much more talented @leannapelham PHP Tutorial Screencasts knplabs.com github.com/weaverryan • Lead contributor to the Symfony documentation ! • KnpLabs US - Symfony consulting, training, Kumbaya ! • Writer for KnpUniversity.com screencasts Buenos Dias!
- 5. PHP Tutorial Screencasts knplabs.com github.com/weaverryan • Viví en Querétaro in 2003 for 4 months • I spoke about 5 words of Spanish. These 5 words did not include hermano nor amigo • Learned of the custom of kissing a women when greeting her… when a woman kissed me on the street Querétaro
- 6. Intro ! PHP Before Now (The Desert of the Real)
- 7. (1) ! Sharing and working together was impossible
- 8. https://www.flickr.com/photos/rossap/805947613 Every PHP Framework, CMS and Project builds everything from scratch
- 9. Sharing was nearly impossible
- 11. (2) ! If PHP is big, we’ll thrive If PHP is small, we’ll die
- 12. @weaverryan Communities PHP is HUGE! Right? http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitty-kat/
- 14. @weaverryan http://www.flickr.com/photos/slpunk99/7329609744 Fragmentation: It makes us tiny, isolated, and misguided trend-setters https://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273913228
- 15. @weaverryan PHP projects vs Rails
- 16. @weaverryan CakePHP I don’t want a damned CakePHP Plugin!
- 17. @weaverryan CakePHP CodeIgniter I want a PHP library I can use in any project
- 18. @weaverryan Fragmentation • More information we have to know ! • Difficult to hire ! • Disjointed forums, StackOverflow ! • Interoperability? What’s that?
- 19. Chapter 1 ! Drupal is PHP PHP is Drupal
- 20. PHP is in the middle of a Renaissance https://www.flickr.com/photos/kafkapie/3761271639
- 22. • Shares code ! • works together ! • uses consistent standards ! • projects are interoperable Now: The Community @weaverryan
- 23. Drupal has missed all of the progress… until now @weaverryan
- 24. Drupal 8 embraces the new tools and standards…
- 25. … and has joined the PHP community as a member and leader @weaverryan
- 26. @weaverryan
- 27. Chapter 2 ! Drupal 8: New Libraries https://www.flickr.com/photos/spam/5086168739
- 29. “Drupal's current outgoing-HTTP capability is, to be polite, minimal. We have one small function with a lousy API that can do basic requests, but that's it. If we want to be serious about web services we need strong bidirectional HTTP support.” https://drupal.org/node/1447736
- 30. Drupal 8’s HTTP client is *incredible*
- 31. It has been developed for over 3 years @weaverryan
- 33. Was entirely sponsored by Amazon @weaverryan
- 34. And Drupal developers didn’t need to waste any time making it! @weaverryan
- 35. Meet Guzzle! An independent PHP library that’s great at making HTTP requests
- 36. drupal_http_request Guzzle Available Documentation comments above the function 9 chapter book Commits ~40 ~2000 Contributors ~20 131 Used by Drupal All PHP devs Features Some Many! Compare & Contrast @weaverryan
- 37. Drupal 8: What fantastic libraries do you get for no effort?
- 38. PHPUnit • Unit-testing library that’s used across all of PHP • Some cool German guy spent years building this for you! • Core has ~5000 unit tests that run in 18 seconds • Easily use unit tests (finally) in your project @weaverryan
- 39. Assetic • JavaScript and CSS processing, minifying and compiling library • Used in the Symfony Framework and other places http://www.cameronhillphotography.com/@weaverryan
- 40. • Templating engine used for Drupal 8 theming • Built by 163 contributors, with 2000 commits over 5 years and 63 releases Twig Loved by:
- 41. • High-Quality library for reading and writing RSS and ATOM feeds • Written by someone else (score!) • A large chapter of already-written documentation Zend Feed @weaverryan
- 42. And Finally…
- 44. Symfony is just a collection of decoupled PHP libraries
- 45. Symfony libraries in Drupal • ClassLoader • Debug • DependencyInjection • EventDispatcher • HttpFoundation • HttpKernel • Process • PropertyAccess • Routing • Serializer • Translation • Validator • Yaml
- 46. These are just tools that Drupal uses, instead of writing everything from scratch
- 47. Drupal 7 ! “There’s a module for that” … and if there’s not, the Drupal community must write one @weaverryan
- 49. Drupal 8 ! “There’s a PHP library for that” … and if there’s not, the entire PHP community can work on it together @weaverryan
- 51. Chapter 3 ! Drupal 8: Hard to Learn? https://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658254172
- 52. Drupal 8 is much more object-oriented
- 53. Difficult to Learn? Drupal 7 Deep Arrays Drupal 8 Objectsvs. @weaverryan
- 57. Drupal 8
- 58. Drupal 7 Drupal 8 • Learn Drupalisms (Drupal-specific practices) • Non-Drupal developers have a learning curve • New devs will copy and paste functions and arrays • Learn practices used across almost all languages • Non-Drupal developers feel at home • New devs will copy and paste functions andYAML @weaverryan
- 59. Drupal 8: good for you Learn these new, highly-needed skills all at once as one big community https://www.flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/309391023
- 60. Bonus
- 61. Knowing Drupal 8 means ! Knowing Silex
- 62. Use the same skills to build a CMS or a custom application
- 63. If you know Drupal ! you understand Symfony or Drufony @weaverryan
- 64. If you know Symfony ! you understand Drupal or Symfal @weaverryan
- 65. Hundreds of pages of documentation exist, thanks to Symfony, Guzzle and other libraries Drupal has a lot of work to do, but has a head-start! Learning Drupal 8 @weaverryan
- 66. Chapter 4 ! New Paradigms mean New Possibilities https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/6731872025
- 67. New Paradigms • Object-Oriented Code • Interfaces • Dependency Injection • Composer • Namespaces @weaverryan
- 68. Possible in Drupal 8 Completely replace any part of core. That’s supported natively
- 69. Possible in Drupal 8 Easier Future Upgrades
- 70. Possible in Drupal 8 Add/Remove entire systems and create distributions
- 71. Drupal for Blogging? Include Entity/Field, Views Remove Most admin features Focus Node Posting System
- 72. No blocks CMS Remove Blocks Focus Use only Twig for theming/ layout
- 73. Syndication CMS Include Atom/RSS syndication Remove All concepts of content beyond feeds Focus Process and serve feeds
- 74. One Drupal cannot work perfectly for everyone https://www.flickr.com/photos/generalnoir/391009102
- 75. But many Drupals is now possible https://www.flickr.com/photos/hjmediastudios/7883634326
- 76. One Technology used for many platforms?
- 77. A Proven Model Best! Use-Case Uses Symfony? Silex Small sites yes Laravel Quicker medium/ large sites yes Symfony Framework Enterprise medium/ large sites yes Drupal CMS yes
- 78. Drupal 8? Best! Use-Case Uses Drupal? Drupal Small Small sites yes Drupal Medium Quicker medium/ large sites yes Drupal Enterprise Enterprise medium/ large sites yes
- 79. Will this happen? ! It’s up to the community, but finally possible
- 81. My 9 Favorite things!
- 84. (8) ! Nodes available as JSON
- 85. (7) ! Mobile Ready: Responsive and with an API
- 86. Responsive!
- 87. (6) ! Multilingual support out of the box
- 88. (5) ! Views in Core (Drupal 8 with views on day 1)
- 92. Configuration Management • Configuration moved from the database toYAML files • Engineered with deployment in mind • Deploy configuration changes from staging to production • Put configuration into version control @weaverryan
- 93. (2) ! HTTP Caching (thanks to Symfony)
- 94. (1) ! Symfony’s Web Debug Toolbar Via a community module
- 101. Are you excited for Drupal 8 yet?!?
- 102. Chapter 6 ! Doing things the Drupal 7 way
- 103. The Revolutionary Tape Player http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_deck
- 104. http://www.amazon.ca/MAXELL-MDV-RW1-Cassette-Rewinder/dp/B00006HOEF Would you start a company in 2014 that sold Walkman accessories?
- 105. PHP 4
- 106. Would you write a PHP 4 book today? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginning-PHP4-Programmer-Wankyu-Choi/dp/0764543644
- 107. Would you build a new CMS on PHP 4?
- 108. Drupal 7 is a CMS built on PHP 4 technology
- 109. Drupal 7 Drupal 8 Technology PHP 4 (2000-2007) PHP 5.4 (2011-) Practices Outdated, Drupal-specific Best-Practices, applicable across languages Non-Drupal devs Code looks unfamiliar Code feels familiar Developer Experience Arrays and hooks Interfaces, IDE code- completion, shared code
- 110. Drupal 7 is good, but we can’t keep doing things the Drupal 7 way forever
- 111. Drupal 8: ! Innovate away from old technolog, or die with it
- 112. Drupal 8 chooses to Innovate
- 113. A Stronger Community
- 115. New Skills for You
- 116. More Tools for You
- 117. New Possibilities
- 118. PHP Tutorial Screencasts Ryan Weaver @weaverryan ¡Gracias!