Schedule

Custom hook implementations, Ctools plugins, or simply no extensibility at all. We’ve all faced the challenges that needed to be overcome in order to make Drupal modules extensible by others.

Drupal 8 introduces the plugin system: a unified approach to discover and instantiate plugins, with a variety of options to customize your own plugin type using different discovery methods and plugin features.

By attending this session, you will learn about:

• How Drupal core and contributed modules use the plugin system
• The available plugin discovery methods
• Plugin instantiation
• The available features plugin types can provide out of the box
• How to write your own plugin types

Demo code will be made available prior to the presentation. You are encouraged to bring a device with code viewing and editing capabilities to get the most out of this session. After the presentation we will go through the steps of writing our own plugin using the demo code.

This workshop will teach you how to use Behat to test your website. With Behat you can write test scenarios in plain English (or Hungarian!) and then run them to test your sites automatically. The scenarios are based on user stories which are part of Agile development. Compared to the standard Simpletest testing framework in Drupal the tests are easy and quick to write and they run very fast. In fact, the tests are so easy to write that you can even use them for small projects where typically the budget would not allow for a test suite to be developed. In this workshop we will be working with the Behat Drupal Extension, which includes a large number of predefined testing snippets. By using this library of snippets (called 'step definitions') we can already test most parts of the website without having to write a single line of code. The workshop consists of the following parts: * A short introduction about Behat and Behaviour Driven Development. * A demonstration of Behat using Firefox (with Selenium) to test javascript. * How to write tests using the Gherkin language. * Installing and configuring Composer and Behat. * Learn how we to use Behat to test any live website, such as Wikipedia or Google. * Test-driven development of a real Drupal 7 Newsroom feature. * Port the Newsroom feature to Drupal 8 and verifying it with our existing test suite. * Finally, a short demonstration of writing custom steps using PHP code. The workshop is intended for developers and site builders. Everybody who knows how to install Drupal on their laptop can follow along. The last 15 minutes will be a demonstration that will require basic PHP knowledge. Prerequisites: a laptop with a working Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 installation. We will not have time to install Drupal, so make sure it is up and running when the workshop starts!

Configuration Management is one of the prominent new features coming with Drupal 8. Features also has an alpha release for Drupal 8, so it would be too easy to do what one is doing with Drupal 7 also with Drupal 8. But then one would miss out on all the exciting new ways. What a shame! In this session we will explore the new ways to manage configurations, compare them with the old ways and show off complex use cases and how to manage them. Attendees will get an understanding of the new tools and start the shift in the mind set necessary to fully appreciate them.

Summary

TypeScript is receiving wider and wider acceptance in the frontend scene as a JavaScript alternative. It is a strongly-typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript, on any browser, on any OS, and it is open source. TypeScript lets you write JavaScript the way you really want to: Support for ECMAScript 6 constructs (classes, modules) in today's ECMAScript 3 compatible browsers. Static types and compilation helps catch mistakes & bugs earlier. Structural interfaces & typing. Enables programming in the large. In Drupal 8, you can easily add JavaScript libraries to your website’s frontend, so you can start coding in TypeScript. In my talk I am going to show you the biggest practical advantages of TypeScript and how to use it with the most common libraries, such as jQuery, domReady or Modernizr. Learn how to create type definitions on your own and how to start your own project written in TypeScript.

The Drupal 8 multilingual initiative was announced as the fourth initiative (after configuration management, web services and design) to explore new ways of moving Drupal forward. Even though these initiatives were supposed to transform Drupal the software, they were also transformative for Drupal as a community, and in the case of multilingual, for me personally.

As one of the most successful initiatives in Drupal 8 involving over 1200 people discussing issues, providing feedback, testing, etc. and the longest running with public meetings and in-person sprints, I think the lessons learned in and with the multilingual initiative are interesting as a use case on how to organize work in an open community. While the success of the initiative is attributable to sheer luck as much as adapting well to the changing landscape of Drupal development, I hope to share things I learned on what worked and what did not.