Are you a seasoned Drupal 7 themer and excited to start working with Drupal 8? Are you starting your first Drupal 8 project? Join Joel and Leah as they walk you through Drupal 8 theme changes and structural best practices.
Changes we will cover:
- File changes
- Templates
- Libraries
- #attached Assets
- Theme hooks
- Blocks
- Base themes
- Suggestions
- SMACSS & BEM
- Debug
- Auto-escaping
- And your questions
About the presenters:
Leah Wagner is a frontend developer at The Jibe. Leah started in design, but along the way, grew to love code. Eight years later, she not only aims to build for today but also analyzes and implements techniques based on how a product or customer needs will evolve in the future.
Joël Pittet has been working in the design industry for 14 years as a full-stack web developer. Joël has dedicated his time to working on Drupal 8's core Twig implementation as a D8 Theme system co-maintainer. You can find him floating around on IRC/slack or Drupal.org as joelpittet in all your issue queues.
Social
Please join us for drinks and food at Steamworks Brewery. This is a great opportunity to meet other Drupalers in the area and network.
Lightning Talks
Attendees are invited to share their experience by giving a 2 to 4 minute presentation on any topic of interest to the Drupal community. If you want to use a laptop to show a website or control panel please be sure you have the necessary cable (VGA) to connect to an overhead projector.
Location
The Network Hub
3rd Floor, 422 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC
RSVP
Please RSVP at our meetup.com group.