Drupal 8 was officially released in November 2015 after over 5 years of development. It features a new MVC structure, improved caching, and a Twig-based templating engine. The developers at add.websolution enjoyed working with D8 and found the development process easier than with previous versions due to stronger core functionality and simplified APIs. They believe it is the right time for organizations to consider moving projects to D8 given the increased adoption rates and availability of learning resources to ease the transition.

1. “lets talk solution”
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Our Encounter
With D8

2. STRUCTURE
Introduction
Drupal 8 Development
Drupal Release Timeline
Official D8 Release
Developer’s Take
Building in D8
Is this the right time to move to D8?
Drupal 8 adoption
Learning Resources

3. INTRODUCTION
• Drupal 8 is the new standard for creating incredible digital experiences
• Drupal 8's core platform has more than 200 new features built in
• Drupal 8 is a massive improvement over Drupal 7
• Great deal of time & energy has been spent into making Drupal 8 what it is
• Let’s look into that

4. Let’s Learn about D8 Development Cycle

5. DRUPAL 8 DEVELOPMENT CYCLE
Development Cycle consisted of 6 different phases
1. Development Phase (March 10, 2011 – December 12, 2012)
2. Feature Completion Phase (December 12, 2012 – February 18, 2013)
3. Clean-up Phase ( February 18, 2013 – July 1, 2013)
4. API Completion Phase ( July 1, 2013 – October 1, 2014)
5. Beta Phase ( October 1, 2014 – October 7, 2015)
6. RC Phase ( October 7, 2015 – November 19, 2015)

6. DRUPAL RELEASE TIMELINE
 Drupal 7 was released on January 5th 2011
 And it took 5 years from that to official D8 release
 Dries and other core contributors have put in highest amount of efforts for this
version of Drupal

7. OFFICIAL D8 RELEASE
Drupal 8.0.0 was released on 19th November 2015
Drupal 8 is built by unprecedented efforts of 3290 contributors & 1228
companies
It definitely calls for a celebration!
Which led to more than 200 release parties all around the globe!
This announcement means we’ll have quickly adapt to the new features and offer
complete solution to clients
Features that our developers loved the most;
1. RESTful Web Services API
2. Contrib Module Readiness

8. CHERISHABLE MEMORIES OF THE RELEASE PARTY WE
HOSTED

9. DEVELOPER’S TAKE
Developers worldwide agree on the fact that Drupal 8 would sure make their lives
easier
Here’s what our developers think about D8
“MVC structure, inbuilt views and inline place editors, not to miss TWIG based
theming engine and configuration is what I like the most about D8”
- Deepali (Sr. Drupal Developer)
“It’s been great experience working with D8, minimal contributed module is
required and core caching is very strong”
- Saurabh Dhariwal (Project Manager)
Apart from that Drupal 8 employs third party libraries like “composer” which is
not part of “Symphony” framework but go hand in hand with “Symphony”

10. BUILDING IN D8
We fell in love with D8, the moment we started working with it
Of course there were challenges initially, but they make for a great learning experience
Developers chose to build test sites with beta releases in order to test the new features
and APIs
The biggest challenge was lack of resources during beta phase to learn about D8
But we managed to get past that just fine

11. Until now we have delivered couple of D8 websites
One of them is a simple one page personal portfolio website
(Can’t provide details about others due to confidentiality clause)
TWIG theming engine is the best part about it. And D8 requires more unified and
simpler APIs to add power
Core is so strong with D8 that no contrib module was required
It was much easier to move configuration changes between environments

12. IS THIS THE RIGHT TIME TO MOVE TO D8?
Yes it is
D8 is definitely a good news for everyone associated with Drupal
Website building is much faster than previous versions
It’s easier to learn D8 via variety of sources
Upgrading to Drupal module is much easier with “Drupal Module Upgrader”
Drupal 8 is 100% multilingual

13. DRUPAL 8 ADOPTION
in the 90 days following the release of Drupal 8.0.0, adoption has outpaced
Drupal 7 by more than 200 percent
As of late March, Drupal.org counted over 60,000 Drupal 8 sites
Source – How is Drupal 8 doing?

14. DRUPAL 8 LEARNING RESOURCES
This is the time when people focus on learning Drupal 8 and its new features
Here’s the consolidated list of Video Tutorials and Articles
Video Tutorials – “OSTraining”
Blog Post – Drupalize.me
Miscellaneous Material – List of resources

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