JIBRAN IJAZ What is new in Drupal 8?

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What is Drupal Content Management System Drupal is used to manage content on o Informational sites o Social Media sites o Member sites o Internet & Web Application

What is Drupal 8 Not just a Content Management System It is a FRAMEWORK Completely revamped Leverages already existing technology Web Publishing Tool

Under the Hood Changes On the surface, Drupal 8 looks the same as Drupal 7 Under the hood, there are a lot of changes Drupal 8, now uses existing frameworks, and their components to enhance its internal architecture

Under the Hood Changes Existing libraries like: o Symfony o Twig o Guzzle o EasyRDF o PHPUnit and many more...

Under the Hood Changes "Basically, we went from invented here to proudly invented elsewhere (PIE)."

New Contrib Modules In Core In Drupal 8, some of the very vital modules have been brought into CORE Modules like: o Views o Entity API o Entity Reference o Field modules ( , Link, Phone) and a few more have been brought entirely into CORE

New Contrib Modules In Core Modules like o CKEditor o Admin Views o Views Bulk Operations o Field Modules (Date) and a few more have been moved partially into CORE

New Contrib Modules In Core Modules like o Blog o Dashboard o Open ID o Poll and a few more have been completely removed from CORE There is a long list of modules which have been completely deprecated from CORE

New Subsystems & Components There are a few subsystems that have been introduced in CORE o Configuration System o Migration System o Plugin System o Routing System o Typedate System

Improved Subsystems & Components There are a few subsystems that have been completely re-architectured o Theme System o Extension System o Bootstrap System o Entity/Field System o Form System and a few others

OOP in Drupal 8 Before Drupal 8, Drupal used to support functional programming Now, Drupal 8 has embraced Object Oriented Programming. Such as o Controllers  Entity Controller  Route Controller

OOP in Drupal 8 o Plugins  Blocks  Custom Blocks  Views  Action etc

OOP in Drupal 8 All the site building components are now objects Such as: o Blocks o Entities o Fields o Forms

Module Development Drupal 8 has opted for Object Oriented approach for Theme and Module development.info files are now.yml files.module files are now optional

Theme Development Drupal 8 has introduced twig Templating Engine which follows Object Oriented Paradigm PHP Templating Engine has been removed from CORE

FUD and Drupal 8 FUD is: F : Fear U : Uncertainty D : Doubt

FUD and Drupal 8 In Drupal 8 extreme changes in CORE lead to FUD of o Developer Experience o Security o Code Complexity

FUD and Drupal 8 In order to resolve these issue: o Helper classes have been introduced to increase the developer experience o Short release cycles are planned to ensure the quick resolution of security issues o De-Coupling of APIs lead to the reduction of complexity, majorly

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