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Build Advanced Authoring Experiences in Drupal 8
Lightning Distribution

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Core Authoring Functionality
Categories

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Install Lightning
● Lightning Project (composer template)
$ composer create-project acquia/lightning-
project:^8.1.0
● Can also build from source repo, but you would typically
only do that to contribute or test unmerged functionality
● http://lightning.acquia.com/lightning-developer-guide

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User Stories: Layout
Name Collisions
● “Creating a Layout” (layout plugin system vs placement
within)
● “Default Layouts” (Layouts which are available vs one is the
actual default)

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User Stories: Layout
● Create layouts (panelizer)
● Setting available layouts
● Setting a default from available layouts
● Customizing one-off layouts (IPE)
● Contextualization (vision)

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User Stories: Media
● Upload media (images, documents)
● Create from Embed/URL (videos, tweets)
● Media as Entities
● Library
● DAM Integrations (vision)

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User Stories: Workflow
● States
● Settings which States are available to a bundle
● Revision history
● Bulk scheduled updates
● Diff (planned)

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User Stories: Preview
● Forward revisions
● See content on different devices
● WPS (planned)
● Contextual preview (vision)

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Build on Lightning
● Add dependencies
$ composer require drupal/MODULE_NAME:^8.0.0
● Dependency version constraints
○ Loose constraints when possible
○ Still have ability to patch

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Build on Lightning
…
extra {
patches {
"drupal/workbench_moderation": {
"2668006 - Provide logical access
control IPE:
"https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/26680
06-2.patch"
}
}
}
...

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Build on Lightning (continued)
● Lightning is modular (turn off functional area)
● Doesn’t prevent you from using other solutions (Display
suite/Paragraphs)
● Non-drupal dependencies (e.g. php-twitter-api)

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Extend Lightning
● Extend (released ~15 July)
● Givesa site-builders the ability to
override, delete and add to the
configuration that Lightning ships
with, during the installation process
● Enable additional extension
● Redirect path
● https://www.drupal.org/node/273450
7
# Defines additional tasks for Lightning
to perform after initial profile
# installation.
# List of additional modules to enable
after Lightning is installed.
modules:
- features
- acme_custom
- acme_product_content_type
- acme_theme_settings
- acme_lightning_settings
# A system path to redirect to once
installation is complete.
redirect:
path: /acme-install-complete
# Optional query string parameters.
query: { }

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Extend Lightning (continued)
● Consume
● High effort - edge case. Use Lightning’s modules in your
own profile
● Requires core patch: https://www.drupal.org/node/2743197
(Needs Work)
● Inherit (vision) Issue
o Five year old issue - might not be available… ever?
o https://www.drupal.org/node/1356276

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Lightning Components
• Tight coupling of functionality
• Standard authoring experience
• Future expectations
• Testing

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Updates provided by Lightning
● Offloading maintenance
● Dependency (core and non-drupal)
● Composer update + composer.lock
○ Lock file (project, not Lightning’s) guarantees that all of
your devs are working from the same codebase within a
project
○ Running `update` allows you to get non-breaking updates
(e.g. core and contrib security updates) without needing
to wait for Lightning to make a new release

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Roadmap
• WPS
• Scenarios (Higher Ed, Commerce, CPG, Public Sector, MEP)
• Decoupled blocks
• SemVer

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Thank You