Today we are talking about The Future of Drupal article, What Challenges Drupal may have, and How we can overcome them together! with guest Ricardo Marcelino.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/421

Topics

• Can you describe the article this topic is based on
• Module percentages
• Drupal’s challenges
• Drupal’s unique selling proposition
• How can Drupal expand relevance
• Why is relevance important
• How does Drupal move forward
• What’s next for Drupal
• Do you think this is a natural change for a project like Drupal
• How do we ensure the future of Drupal

Resources

• The Future of Drupal
• Drupal Day Portugal Slides
• Dries note

Guests

Ricardo Marcelino - omibee.com rfmarcelino

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu (Next.js)[https://www.drupal.org/project/next]

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to build a website with a React-based front end, but with lots of the robust and mature CMS capabilities that Drupal provides? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jan 2021 by shadcn, who continues to support it, including in the #nextjs channel in Drupal slack
• Versions available:
  • 1.6.3 for Drupal 9 & 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, though it uses a Github repo as its place for collaboration, including issues
• Number of open issues:
  • 135 open, 12 of them bugs
• Test coverage? Y
• Usage stats:
  • 1,249 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • shadcdn, who continues to support it, including in the #nextjs channel in Drupal slack
• Module features and usage:
  • For anyone not familiar with Next.js, it’s a React framework for building front-end applications that gives developers a number a number of useful capabilities, such as dynamic routing, performance optimizations, integrations, and more
  • The Next.js module for Drupal optimizes your Drupal backend for use as the content repository for a Next.js front end
  • It add functionality like headless preview of unpublished content, even across multiple front end apps
  • It also supports Incremental Site Regeneration, a best practice to ensure your front end site can serve static pages for the fastest possible delivery, but without the risk of serving stale content
  • Works with the JSON:API Menu Items and JSON:API Views Drupal modules to allow even more of your front end site to be managed within your Drupal backend
  • There’s even a Next.js Webform module that allows your Drupal site builder to create webforms, and have the React forms automatically created
  • There is also a specialized version of Next.js, a “next-drupal-basic-starter”, also maintained by shadcn, that helps to get your Next.js front end working with Drupal more quickly