The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 15

Hello!

On November 19th, an important event took place in the Drupal world - the release of Drupal 8.0.0 . They already managed to write about it everywhere from Habr to Hacker News . We decided to collect the most important thing here in our special issue No. 15.

In Russian

1. Drupal 8. Training materials and more.
2. Drupal 8 promotion page at dru.io.
3. A series of Twig articles on Drupal 8 on drup.by.
4. The critical view of the creator of the PHPixie framework and the answer to it .
5. Queue API and Tour API on Nikita Malyshev's blog.

activity

1. More than two hundred parties, mitaps, sprints devoted to the release of the eight took place around the world. Drupal unites!
   
2. It's time to register for the nearest (in time) conference in Russia, DrupalCamp Siberia . Novosibirsk, December 18-20.
3. And in February, we are waiting for the first post-release DrupalCon. It will be held February 18-21 in Mumbai, India .

Educational articles and reviews

1. If you are completely new to the world of Drupal 8, then be sure to check out three interesting features of the system , as well as a detailed presentation-tour .
2. Recall that the feedback form in the eight is available out of the box , and is also much more customizable than a similar module from the seventh Drupal.
3. Among the obvious advantages of the G8, some authors highlight the advanced features of working with structured content .
4. We deal with message logging .
5. The article Programmatically attach files to a node in Drupal 8 addresses issues of programmatically adding files to nodes.
6. Drupal 8 has two core themes built in: Classy and Stable. We understand their fundamental differences .
7. We continue to build a simple blog. This time, use Views . And then redefine their patterns .
8. Performance: turn on the classloader cache .
9. Wim Liers, who is actively working on performance in the eight, announced the release of the BigPipe module . It's time to do another benchmark.
10. Updated or not, that’s the question. A rough estimate is given in note 4 considerations: upgrade Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 or Drupal 8 , in the article “ A Simple Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 Migration ”, automatic migration of content from the seven is discussed in detail. For those of you, dear friends who are developing media portals, it will be useful to read an analysis on the topic of the readiness of the relevant modules .
11. There are also quite curious notes about the first satisfied customers , as well as the diaries of the pioneers themselves.
12. One of the fairly large studios kindly shares some tips for developing sites on Drupal 8, they will be especially useful for companies where this experience will be the first.
13. The note “ Drupal 8 tip of the day: replace hook_drush_command () by a YAML file ” tells about creating your own Drush commands.
14. Problems with the working environment for the development of sites on the eight should not be. For example, you can use the Acquia Dev Desktop 2 tool . For those who like it, configure everything yourself: you can configure the virtual machine using Docker Compose using the detailed guide , or use ready-made tools such as Terra Cli , Kalabox or Drude , or install the necessary software manually on Linux .
15. One of the "pumped" distributions Panopoly at full speed rushes to eight, although the work has no end .
16. Correctly save user data in the session .
17. Replacing Drupal Make with Composer , a detailed tutorial by Karen Stevenson.
18. A small example of Headless Drupal 8 with Mithril JS on the front end.
19. Hundreds of articles have already been written about configurations, but this review from the Lullabots also deserves attention.

Video

1. Training video course from OSTraining and Acquia.
2. Lesson: Inline editing in Drupal 8 .
3. Drupal 8 Page Management - video from the conference.
4. From the same conference: Drush in the Composer Era .

Modules

We remind you that many well-known modules from the standard Drupal-developer kit are ported to the eight (sometimes partially): Panels (+ Page manager ), Devel , Rules , Token , Features , Libraries API , Views Slideshow , Display Suite , IMCE , Colorbox , Search API , Flag , Taxonomy Menu and many others . Oleg Kot and Katya Marshalkina

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