Drupal 8

Next week we'll start digging into the State API to get more parts of our block moved over. Have a great week and enjoy!

If you're not already familiar with declarative programming and/or the Drupal 8 configuration API

Drupal 8 comes with a brand new plugin system. This article provides a high-level overview of both the annotation and hook discovery mechanisms by examining a real world implementation in the form of core's Field API Widgets.

Plugins are a new concept in Drupal 8 that will be important for any aspiring Drupal 8 module developer to understand. Some common use cases where you'll encounter plugins are defining custom blocks

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.

In this tutorial we are going to go a bit further with our sandbox module found in this repository and look at two new important pieces of functionality: blocks and forms.

Please note that since Drupal 8 is still under active development, some of the details below may change prior to its release. Still, since Drupal 8 is now feature-frozen, hopefully most info should remain relevant.