Notes DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014

Here is a recap of some of the stuff we learned during DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014!

Drupal 8

• drupal 8 crash course
• drupal 8 undercover intitiatives
• PHP OOP for Drupal (namespaces, interfaces, traits, inheritance, typehinting)
• an overview of the drupal 8 plugin system (code / slides)
• Also:

We just released Drupal 8 beta 1: https://t.co/T7v8SHBIHR Huge thank-you to everyone who contributed!

— Dries Buytaert (@Dries) October 1, 2014

Content staging in Drupal 8

• video
• multiversion module
• CRAP instead of CRUD
• entities are never deleted
• relaxed module
• Extensions of core rest service
• deploy module

CMI in Drupal 8

• video
• You need Drush 7 for Drupal 8
• Supports multilingual
• useful module, don't let admins change the config config_readonly
• inspect config through UI config_inspector

Want to prevent clients from making configuration changes on the live environment? https://t.co/dYFrU7EVyc #drupal8 #cmi #drupalcon

— Albert Skibinski (@askibinski) October 1, 2014

Tasty backend

• video
• Didn't actually attend this one but heard good things about it.
• intall profile to check it out

Loving @DelishCreative's Tasty Backend presentation. Please do this out of the box #Drupal devs. #DrupalCon

— Frank Schaap (@fschaap) October 1, 2014

The future of HTML and CSS

• video
• About things that may or may not be... like:
• Shadow DOM , CSS scoping & Web components
• Flexbox

By the way: another session was about something very experimental called GSS: grid style sheets (polyfills from the future!)

Wall to wall packed out for GSS with @alanjosephburke #DrupalCon pic.twitter.com/NmaAmr7E5A

— Lewis Nyman (@lewisnyman) October 1, 2014

Other stuff worth checking out:

• Cory Doctorow's keynote
• Dries's keynote (start at 4:15 to skip sponsor)
• The render_cache module

Impressive stuff! render_cache module is going in my #drupal 7 stack. thank you @fabianfranz crafting it. Really like the bigpipe concept :)

— René Bakx (@renebakx) October 1, 2014

Automated frontend testing

• video
• Phantom.js & casper.js

Headless drupal

• Lots of sessions touching this topic.
• See also our own blog item about it
• Also called decoupling Drupal
• useful module in this context: CORS 
• also:
• https://groups.drupal.org/headless-drupal
• https://groups.drupal.org/node/426763
• https://www.getpantheon.com/blog/headless-websites-whats-big-deal
• http://www.koberg.com/2014/06/08/headless-drupal-8-and-angularjs-theme-separation-of-concerns/
• http://www.gizra.com/content/headless-drupal-form-api-drupal9/
• http://scotch.io/tutorials/javascript/single-page-apps-with-angularjs-routing-and-templating
• https://www.drupal.org/node/2230529
• http://www.gizra.com/content/restful-angular-forms/
• http://blog.loadimpact.com/2014/07/29/headless-drupal-8-retrieving-content-using-backbone-js/
• https://www.getpantheon.com/blog/headless-websites-headless-drupal-options

PHPstorm tips for Drupal developers

• video
• Use version 8 for Drupal 8
• handy plugin: codesniffer
• phpunit testing 
• plugin needed: symfony2
• plugin needed: symfony2 drupal bridge
• Integrating Drush
• keyboard shorcut tip: double shift (search everywhere)
• see what you use in menu -> help -> productivity guide

Other recaps here and here.

This year our group was joined by Teun van Veggel who has his own Drupal shop in Madrid! The next Drupalcon won't be too far for him ;)

Who's excited about #DrupalCon Barcelona? http://t.co/SNwmCWkuX1 pic.twitter.com/Lvx4t9b5X0

— DrupalCon Amsterdam (@DrupalConEur) October 3, 2014