Drupal 4 U

Drupal Stakeholder/Evaluator Preview

Slides:

https://bradjones1.github.io/d8-slides

Brad Jones

Drupal Developer

Principal

brad@bradjonesllc.com

Framework

Drupal is a powerful framework to build web applications. Like D7, D8 makes some assumptions around your use of Drupal as a CMS, but far fewer.

Modern PHP

OOP

Major Version APIs incompatible

Focus on

Backwards-Compatibility

Community Love

Photo: Michael Cannon/Flickr

NIH

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PFE

"Not Invented Here"

"Proudly Found Elsewhere"

Required (?) Dev Tech

IDE

Virtualization

And...

JSON

DevOps

Responses aren't necessarily HTML.

"REST-Aware"

In Drupal 7, everything is a page (unless you dance around a bit). In Drupal 8, everything is an HTTP response, which is sometimes a page.

- Larry Garfield

                                https://www.palantir.net/blog/d8ftw-rest-aware-routing

Meet Symfony

Drupal as a Superset

Drinking From the Fire Hose

Overwhelmed yet? Drupal is (in)famous for its learning curve.

But...

Drupal (version 8 in particular) represents the most powerful set of tools out of the box of any open source CMS.