Why would a developer whose framework of preference is Symfony2 pay attention to Drupal 8? A general overview of Drupal, including pros and cons of using it. Prepared and presented by Yaroslav Doroshchuk, CTO, Grossum. The presentation took place at DrupalCamp Kyiv 2014.

1. Why Drupal?
Или почему Symfony разработчику
стоит посмотреть на Drupal

2. AGENDA
• Drupal overview
• Key Benefits in Drupal 8
• Defects in Drupal
• Summary
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3. WHAT IS DRUPAL?
• Drupal is a content management framework.
• Big community.
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4. CONTENT STRUCTURE CONFIGURATION
• Make Models / Entities definition
• Get CRUD for them out of the box
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5. VIEWS & WHY YOU NEED THEM
• VIEWS: Graphical user interface to make views of modeled data
• You need them if:
– You want a way to display a block with the 5 most recent posts of some
particular type.
– You want to display list of articles with data from related authors,
author’s friends, authors’ friend’s article, all above with some sorting or
filtering.
– You want to be able to make bulk operations with the content
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6. REUSABILITY
• Data model and views can be exported / imported using
configuration management in Drupal 8 or using Features in Drupal 7
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7. A LOT OF FEATURES FROM THE BOX
• A lot of modules (9562 - d7, 541 - d8):
– Panels
– organic groups with permissions for each group
– Notifications
– content import/export
– Panels
– Web forms
– Rules / Actions
• A lot of integrations with third party systems
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8. KEY BENEFITS IN DRUPAL 8
• Symfony2 in core
• HttpKernel
• Routing
• EventDispatcher
• DependencyInjection
• Http foundation
• Debug Log
• Process (shell_exec)
• Serializer
• Translation
• Yaml configs
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9. NOT IN DRUPAL 8 CORE
• Kernel
– FrameworkBundle
– SwiftMailerBundle
– Service configuration
– WebProfilerBundle
• Form
• Config
• BrowserKit
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10. WEB SERVICES
• Exposes entities and other resources via a RESTful web API
• Allow views to be represented as resource
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INLINE EDITING
• Allows you to select any editable element on the page and edit it
in-place

11. DEFECTS IN DRUPAL
• No clean deployment and staging concept
• Flexible/Slow DB structure.
• Inconsistent cache layers
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12. SUMMARY
• Fast prototyping
• Problems with coding in Drupal 7, which should be fixed in Drupal 8
• Slow/Flexible system
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13. QUESTIONS / COMMENTS?
• E-mail: YDoroshchuk@grossum.com
• Skype: yarroha
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