Cornered development

Drupal 8 ships with support for encoding and representing its entities

Up till now, Front-end Developers have been working with a display layer that was originally introduced in Drupal 4.5, here’s how it worked...

Until Drupal 8 arrives, setting up effective WYSIWYG content editing falls to us developers. For many developers, figuring out the available options and their pros and cons can be difficult.

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.

This blog post is a textual representation of the video shared yesterday. If you are visual learner, watch it. If you are in a hurry, read this blog :). Peter's video also shows how configuration_log module can be used to materialize all config changes in Prod so they may be easily integrated back into the codebase.

When will Drupal 8 be out? It's a question that's asked in many forms.

Drupal 8 lays the foundation for building robust and flexible RESTful APIs quickly and efficiently.

This is done by passing a render array and most of the time you'll use the type 

We will assume that you have a development version of Drupal 8, git and drush available on your system

This is part 3 in my series of articles about creating a custom field. I recommend reading Part 1: Field type and Part 2: Field widget