Drupal 8 is around the corner, and it is packed with a lot of interesting features. We’ll explore in more detail the most important ones.

1. WHAT IS NEW IN DRUPAL 8 ?
Drupal 8 is around the corner, and it is packed
with a lot of interesting features.
We’ll explore in more detail the most important
ones.
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2. NEW TEMPLATE ENGINE
 Drupal 8 is now using Twig for the its themes templates.
 Twig is a modern and popular template engine for PHP and it is
known to be fast, secure and flexible.
 Now Drupal templates are more clean and simplified.

3. VIEWS IN CORE
 One of the most popular Drupal module, Views, it is now
integrated into the core thanks to the Views in Drupal Core
initiative (VDC).
 Some of the administration pages and the front page are
rendered using a view, allowing us to easily customize them.

4. HTML 5
Drupal 7’s XHTML has been
replaced in Drupal 8 by the
semantic HTML 5 markup.
That also made possible to have
new field types such as
email, date, telephone ready to
be used on the forms and nodes.

5. MULTILINGUAL CAPABILITIES
Drupal 8 translation system has been greatly improved, making it very easy to build a
multilingual website.

6. MOBILE FIRST
All the build-in themes are
responsive now.
Also, we find in the core two
modules that will help in the
mobile development: Breakpoint
(Manage breakpoints and
breakpoint groups for responsive
designs.) and Responsive Image
(Provides an image formatter and
breakpoint mappings to output
responsive images using the
HTML5 picture tag.).

7. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
Configuration management, provided by
the Configuration Manager module, allow us
to import, export and synchronize many
configuration types, like: what modules are
enabled, new fields, content types, menus,
views, etc.
Because of this, we no longer have the need
to use modules like Features or Strongarm for
this kind of purpose.

8. IMPROVED FIELDS
We have new core field types, the
comments are represented as
fields now, and we can also
manage the fields of the contact
forms.

9. THANK YOU!