With all of the new updates in Drupal 8, it’s important to ensure that you and your team are fully trained on the improvements and changes. This webinar will do just that and will help you get up to speed on Drupal 8. Whether you need to train yourself, or a whole team, you’ll leave this webinar with useful resources and advice.
Join OSTraining, an Acquia training partner, to hear about the process for getting your team ready to build on Drupal 8. Topics covered will include:
- The course outline from the Drupal 8 Beginner class, used to get newcomers and site-builders ready to work with Drupal 8
- The skills that Drupal themers will need to learn including Twig, Javascript, and Headless Drupal (and where to learn them!)
- The abilities that Drupal 8 developers must learn including Symfony, object oriented programming, and the new REST API (and the resources available to learn them)
2. I’ll talk about 4 groups of people to train
1. Beginners
2. Site Builders
3. Developers
4. Themers
There will be (a very cool) surprise announcement at the end.
3. The timeline for Drupal 8
It took 2 years for Drupal 7 to overtake Drupal 6.
It will take time for Drupal 8 to meet the needs of all sites.
4. The timeline for Drupal 8
● Q4 2015: Drupal 8 launched
● Q1 2016: The Drupal 8 core is ready to use and so are some key modules
● Q2 2016: Layout modules and workflow modules
● Q3 2016: Most integrations are ready, including Salesforce, Marketo etc.
● Q4 2016: Drupal 8 has feature parity with Drupal 7
13. Beginners can start now
There’s a free 60+ video Beginner class on YouTube: http://bit.ly/d8class
Also a free Site-Building Class: http://bit.ly/d8sitebuilding
16. What has changed for
site builders?
There are some notable changes.
17. Modules now in core
● Views
● Views Bulk Operations
● CKEditor
● Date
● Link
● Email
● Entity Reference
● Phone
● Module Filter
● Responsive Images
18. Popular functionality modules
● Calendar: Next release on January 25. Aiming for a stable release in Q1.
● Views Slideshow: Alpha release.
● Webform: No release. Possibly replaced by Contact in core.
● Rules: Pre-release. Funded by Acquia and aiming for a February release.
● Media: Lots of sprints and the goal is a Q1 release.
● Workbench: A Beta version due on January 25.
● Pathauto: Aiming for a stable release on February 15.
● Token: Aiming for a stable release in Q1.
● Search API: Aiming for a stable release on March 7.
● Scheduler: Aiming for a stable release on January 27.
25. Popular layout modules
● Panels: Beta. Aiming for a stable release on February 16.
● Panelizer: In progress. Aiming for a stable release on February 16.
● Display Suite: Ready!
● Context: Possibly replaced by the “Block Visibility Groups” module.
26. Popular theme frameworks
● Zen: no Drupal 8 version ready https://www.drupal.org/node/2052399
● Bootstrap: Beta.
● Omega: Alpha.
● AdaptiveTheme: Pre-release.
27. Skills themers will need
● Twig. All of Drupal 8’s themes have been re-written in Twig.
● Find out more: http://bit.ly/twigthemes
● Twig offers better separation between design and business logic.
● Twig is good for security: no PHP in the theme templates.
{{ title_prefix }}
{% if not page %}
<h2{{ title_attributes }}>
<a href="/{{ node_url }}">{{ label }}</a>
</h2>
{% endif %}
{{ title_suffix }}
28. Decoupled Drupal
● Drupal 8 ships with a REST API in core: http://bit.ly/D8RestAPI
● This allows you to use a Javascript front-end: http://bit.ly/d8decoupled
● You can Zurb, React, Handlebars, Java or any framework you want.
● Angular 2 may be Acquia’s recommendation.
● Acquia is working on best practice documents for the 2nd half of 2016
31. 4 groups of people to train
1. Beginners
2. Site Builders
3. Developers
4. Themers
Acquia Academy will have free training for all these groups.
We hope to be finished by the end of Q1 2016.
Acquia and OSTraining.com will also have more advanced Drupal training.