Wolfgang Ziegler

Modern JavaScript frontend frameworks became the go to solution for a new generation of web developers - but how can we as a community make Drupal relevant to them?

Nuxt.js is an intuitive, Vue.js based framework. It's the perfect choice for the frontend of our decoupled Drupal stack using custom elements markup.

When it comes to decoupling, it turns out there are many options on how to decouple. Not only are there many technology choices in choosing the right frontend framework and APIs involved, the questions become also more foundational: Which system should be in charge for handing different aspects of the applicaiton, e.g. routing, placing blocks or authentication?

Drupal Europe is the main gathering of the European Drupal Community of this year. People from the European and global Drupal community collaborate together on tackling challenges and engage in order to make Drupal grow both as a technology and as a brand.

While the Drupalcon webseite has a good few pointers to the well-known major tourist attractions, as locals we'd like to share our knowledge about some of our favourite places with you! Check out the list of our recommendations!

Last week we had to pleasure to join 2300 other Drupals to visit Drupalcon Amsterdam. Besides the usual great number of sessions and BoFs, the highlight of the conference was the first Drupal 8 beta release. Also, the conference was a great opportunity to present together with Kristof De Jaeger (swentel) and Yves Chedemois (yched) about the recent Entity Field API improvements. The session was a revival of the gorgeous presentation we did in Portland and a great success. If you missed it, check out the recording.

Last October Drupal Austria organized a full day-long free workshop for getting started with Drupal 8 in Vienna. drunomics sponsored the event and I had the favor of presenting on Coding with Drupal 8. Meanwhile, Drupal Austria has got the recordings of the workshop up, the result: 4 hours of high-quality Drupal 8 training material in German.

Last Tuesday, I had the honour to talk about the Drupal 8 Entity API improvements at Drupalcon Austin. In case you missed it, you can find the slides and the recording here.

Since the DrupalDevDays in Szeged we've worked a lot on getting the remaining beta blockers of the Entity system done, which are mostely centered around an unified field repository and entity storage improvements; i.e. automatic schema generation for your content entities!