Drupal frontend meetup - November 2014 - "Beating the Class out of Drupal 8"

Location: Phase2 Portland Office, 514 NW 11th ave. Suite #203

For years now, frontend developers have ranted and whined about Drupal's divitis, a disease that's been greatly eradicated in Drupal 8 with the introduction of smarter templates and the use of Twig.

But a secondary problem often crops up for Drupal frontenders -- all the CSS classes, and corresponding styles, that Drupal stuffs into every element that's left. For some themes, Drupal's default classes give a nice starting point. For others, they provide hours of delightful fun learning about style cascades and specificity issues. In other words, they can be awful.

Drupal themers can be an ornery bunch, and for awhile now they've been arguing about which approach is better, like historical browser war re-enactors set loose on the Drupal issue queues.

No longer. A consensus has emerged, beginning relatively recently in Drupal 8 development, that allows themers to choose between including Drupal's default classes, and using none at all. Its name is Classy. Come hear about this brave new world, with such base themes in it!

Ivan Boothe is a freelance frontend Drupal developer specializing in nonprofit sites. He co-organizes PDXTech4Good.org, and the Nonprofit Technology Network's monthly Drupal for Nonprofits discussion calls.

There is some on-street parking nearby, and the office is easily accessed by transit or bike (bike racks outside).

The front doors to the building are locked, and we can't put signs on the doors. We'll post someone at the door for a while, but it'll probably be best to arrive a little bit early! You can also try pinging me (@aprohl5) on Twitter if you get locked out.