lightning distribution for drupal: build advanced authoring experiences in drupal 8

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Build Advanced Authoring Experiences in Drupal 8

Lightning Distribution


Core Authoring Functionality Categories


Install Lightning● Lightning Project (composer template)

$ composer create-project acquia/lightning-project:^8.1.0

● Can also build from source repo, but you would typically only do that to contribute or test unmerged functionality

● http://lightning.acquia.com/lightning-developer-guide

http://lightning.acquia.com/lightning-developer-guide


User Stories: LayoutName Collisions

● “Creating a Layout” (layout plugin system vs placement within)

● “Default Layouts” (Layouts which are available vs one is the actual default)


User Stories: Layout● Create layouts (panelizer)

● Setting available layouts

● Setting a default from available layouts

● Customizing one-off layouts (IPE)

● Contextualization (vision)


http://youtube.com/v/ZVH5b7b47N0


User Stories: Media● Upload media (images, documents)● Create from Embed/URL (videos, tweets)● Media as Entities● Library● DAM Integrations (vision)


http://youtube.com/v/iwmgFZ70wU4


User Stories: Workflow● States● Settings which States are available to a bundle● Revision history● Bulk scheduled updates● Diff (planned)


http://youtube.com/v/tTtNRiIBQ2c


User Stories: Preview● Forward revisions● See content on different devices● WPS (planned)● Contextual preview (vision)


http://youtube.com/v/DdVaHcnf2ek


Build on Lightning● Add dependencies

$ composer require drupal/MODULE_NAME:^8.0.0

● Dependency version constraints○ Loose constraints when possible○ Still have ability to patch


Build on Lightning…extra { patches { "drupal/workbench_moderation": { "2668006 - Provide logical access control IPE: "https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2668006-2.patch" } }}...


Build on Lightning (continued)● Lightning is modular (turn off functional area)● Doesn’t prevent you from using other solutions

(Display suite/Paragraphs)● Non-drupal dependencies (e.g. php-twitter-api)


Extend Lightning● Extend (released ~15 July)

● Givesa site-builders the ability to override, delete and add to the configuration that Lightning ships with, during the installation process

● Enable additional extension● Redirect path● https://www.drupal.org/node/27

34507

# Defines additional tasks for Lightning to perform after initial profile# installation.

# List of additional modules to enable after Lightning is installed.modules: - features - acme_custom - acme_product_content_type - acme_theme_settings - acme_lightning_settings

# A system path to redirect to once installation is complete.redirect: path: /acme-install-complete

# Optional query string parameters. query: { }

https://www.drupal.org/node/2734507



Extend Lightning (continued)● Consume● High effort - edge case. Use Lightning’s modules in

your own profile● Requires core patch:

https://www.drupal.org/node/2743197 (Needs Work)● Inherit (vision) Issue

o Five year old issue - might not be available… ever?

o https://www.drupal.org/node/1356276



Lightning Components• Tight coupling of functionality

• Standard authoring experience

• Future expectations

• Testing


Updates provided by Lightning● Offloading maintenance● Dependency (core and non-drupal)● Composer update + composer.lock

○ Lock file (project, not Lightning’s) guarantees that all of your devs are working from the same codebase within a project

○ Running `update` allows you to get non-breaking updates (e.g. core and contrib security updates) without needing to wait for Lightning to make a new release


Roadmap• WPS

• Scenarios (Higher Ed, Commerce, CPG, Public Sector, MEP)

• Decoupled blocks

• SemVer


Thank You

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