Drupal 8
What is there for site builders?
Ashish Thakur,
Tech Lead Srijan Technologies
@Ashish_Thakur

Topics Included
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Drupal 8 release dates and prerequisites.
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Drupal Development using Vagrant.
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File Structure in Drupal 8.
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Modules added and removed in Drupal 8.
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Architecture changes in blocks.
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Tour module for Drupal 8.
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Responsive UI in Drupal 8.
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How to contribute to Drupal 8.

Drupal 8 release dates
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Development Phase - December 1, 2012
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Feature Freeze - February 18, 2013
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Alpha Release(drupal 8.0-alpha12) – May 28, 2014
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References:
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https://www.drupal.org/node/3060/release?api_ver
sion%5B%5D=7234
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https://www.drupal.org/core/release-cycle

Drupal 8 prerequisites
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PHP 5.4 and above.
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Drush 7.
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https://github.com/drush-ops/drush

Drupal Developement Using Vagrant
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Vagrant is a tool for building complete development
environments.
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Makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the
past.
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Vagrant Drupal Development d.o project:
https://www.drupal.org/project/vdd
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References
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http://www.vagrantup.com
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https://www.drupal.org/project/vdd

File Structure and Modules
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Drupal 8: Not invented here, proudly found else where.
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Contrib modules included in core
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Views: http://drupal.org/project/views
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Migrate: http://drupa.org/project/migrate
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Ckeditor
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Some new cool modules
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Tour
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Modules removed
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Blog, Trigger, OpenID

Blocks are entities
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Blocks are entities now.
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Blocks in Drupal 7 Days.
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https://www.drupal.org/project/multiblock
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https://www.drupal.org/project/context
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These modules were used to enable a block in multiple
regions.
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Blocks in Drupal 8.
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Enable blocks in multiple regions out of the box :).

Glimpse of Tour Module.
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Allows interactive help.
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Comes with an API which allows you to build tours.

Come for the software, stay for the
community
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Issue Queues: https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?
status=All&categories=All
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Join hands with contributed modules maintainers
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http://d8rules.org/
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Search API: http://drupal.org/project/search_api
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Examples: http://drupal.org/project/examples

Ashish Thakur
@Ashish_Thakur
Thank You!