November Meetup - Intro to Drupal 8

Thanks for a great meetup last night! And thanks as well to Dan for providing an overview of the recent Givecamp event (http://grgivecamp.org/).

Here are the notes from the presentation:

How do I get access to a test system?

http://simplytest.me/ 

• Time-limited Drupal 8 Sandbox
• Multiple versions of Drupal available
• https://drupalize.me/blog/201401/everyone-can-try-out-drupal-8-today

http://getpantheon.com/d8

• Drupal 8 Sandbox with no time limit
• Requires free account
• Some filesystem limitations
• https://www.getpantheon.com/blog/see-drupal-8-action-pantheon-platform-drupalsdestiny

What can I do with Drupal 8?

• Default Toolbar
  • Looks good, responsive
  • Useful Shortcuts
• Content
  • Content listing is a view with bulk operations
  • Node editing interface is significantly improved
• Structure
  • Blocks interface is improved
  • Contact forms - create multiple forms and add additional fields
  • Display Modes
    • Customize what fields show up on node displays, users, and edit forms
    • Replacement for Display Suite
    • https://drupalize.me/blog/201403/exploring-new-drupal-8-display-modes 
• Appearance
  • Frontend is pretty much the same, but templates now use twig
• Configuration
  • People
    • Form Display
  • Content authoring
    • text formats and editing
• Development
  • configuration management

What's missing?

Contributed Modules development and core status:

• http://blog.merge.nl/2014/01/21/drupal-which-drupal-7-modules-went-into-drupal-core 

Modules with some Drupal 8 development status:

• https://www.drupal.org/project/project_module?f%5B3%5D=drupal_core:7234 

Remember that some modules have moved to Github for their development

What can I do to prepare?

Future-proof your Drupal 7 site

• https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/future-proof-your-drupal-7-site 
• Slides: http://davereid.github.io/future-proof/#/

Modules to use:

•      http://www.drupal.org/project/spark  
•      http://www.drupal.org/project/navbar 
•      http://www.drupal.org/project/quickedit 
•      Other modules are described in the Future-proof presentation

Modules to avoid:

• https://drupalize.me/blog/201410/drupal-8-brings-new-things-leaves-behind-few-well 
• https://www.ostraining.com/blog/drupal/modules-avoid-drupal-8/ 

Resources:

• https://www.acquia.com/blog/drupal-8
• https://drupalize.me/taxonomy/term/60

Consider auditing your modules and content 

What can I do to contribute? 

• Try out the system
• Check out the issue queue when you have problems
• Test out contributed modules