This presentation takes you through Drupal 8 in a detailed manner. You will learn the difference between Drupal 8 and Drupal 7. You will also learn whether it's the right time for you to switch to Drupal 8.

1. Real World Drupal 8: The Good,
The Bad and The Ugly!
Neerav Mehta
Red Crackle, The Drupal Experts
http://redcrackle.com
Dec 17, 2015

2. Overview
• Pros and cons of Drupal 8 as compared to
Drupal 7
• Is this the right time to upgrade your site to
Drupal 8?

3. Pros
• Configuration Management
• Twig
– Easier to learn for themers
– Automatic code quality since PHP tags are not
allowed

4. PHPTemplate vs Twig
PHPTemplate
Twig

5. PHPTemplate Mess: node.tpl.php

6. Entities
• Feature complete entities with common API
• Drupal 7
• Drupal 8

7. Field Access
• Drupal 7
• Drupal 8

8. Annotations
Drupal 7
Drupal 8

9. Pros
• All admin list pages are views
• Quick Edit
• Symfony
– Good documentation

10. Cons
• Harder to learn for a Drupal developer with no
exposure to MVC
• Harder to debug (will improve with
experience)
• Breakpoint not possible in twig (although
could be put in compiled version) or
annotations

11. Time to Upgrade?
• Depends!
• Contrib modules are not ready
– Installation errors
– Released Modules in D8: Workflow, Views Slideshow, Field Group
– Dev Modules in D8: Token, Global Redirect, Pathauto, Field Collection
– Modules not in D8: Profile 2, OG
• Migration path exists but is incomplete, has bugs and is being
improved on
– Supported: nodes, users, taxonomy, URL alias, standard date formats
– Not Supported: Views, blocks (?), custom date formats
• Theme and custom modules will need to be developed from
scratch.
• Small informational site with only a few contrib modules => Yes
• Medium to large site with lots of contrib modules => No

12. Q&A