Cornered development

I have been experimenting with the Alpha release of Drupal 8 and so I'm sharing some of my experiences so that you can avoid the pitfalls I have encountered.

Having recently started working with Drupal in module development and published my first public Module, my interests have gravitated around the next version of Drupal (v8) and what it holds in store.

Headless website architecture is gaining traction and popularity. Nearly every developer I’ve spoken to in the past six months is excited about the potential, and with good reason

Ethan Teague of CivicActions provides a nice overview of Backdrop CMS.

One of the exciting features that’s on its way in Drupal 8 is the ability to use Drupal as a RESTful web service. This means that Drupal 8 core allows you to expose data to external applications in a number of standardized formats

My skin crawls when I see HTML filled with divs tucked inside each other over and over again like a Russian nesting doll

As with any new version of Drupal, a number of contributed modules will be refactored, and pulled into core.

Like all Drupal 8 module development, creating forms isn't quite as straight forward as it has been in the past using the hook system.

Just when you thought Drupal 8 couldn't get more powerful; I give to you Views in core

Drupal's field system is awesome and it is one of the reasons why I started using Drupal in the first place. However, there are some small limitations in it which surface from time to time.