What is Drupal?
Drupal is an open source content management platform that allows its users to easily organize, manage and publish their content with an endless variety of customization. Millions of websites and applications are powered by Drupal. Drupal is a flexible and unified platform that supports rich, diverse and engaging content in a very scalable way.
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Drupal 8: The Tool for Systems
Drupal 8, which was released on November 19, 2015, is the new tool for systems and it comes with more than 200 new features and improvements for programmers & developers. Drupal has always been flexible, highly scalable and technically advanced but this new release by Drupal, Drupal 8 is looked after to be the strongest link for the content supply chain of the companies, especially for those with the higher amount of data. The progressive decoupling enables the developers to break-free from the back-end restrictions without sacrificing the security and accessibility. With the new additions like enhanced entity caching and better integrations with CDNs and reverse proxies, you can build amazing integrated experiences.
Who can use Drupal 8?
Drupal 8 comes with more than 200 new features and improvements which make it more strong and flexible. It can be used by anybody, from a blogger or photographer to small non-profit organizations and large corporations.
Why should you use Drupal 8?
Drupal 8 has configuration management built into core. Drupal 8 is faster than ever along with PHP 7 & 64-bit support. It is multilingual by default and follows the mobile first approach in both frontend and backend. In simple words, with the new features, Drupal 8 is more towards bundling functionality rather than just managing configuration.
Features of Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is much more advanced than its earlier versions i.e., Drupal 6 & Drupal 7. Drupal8 enables its users to create outstanding responsive websites which would look great across all the devices. Drupal 8 has reduced dependence on additional modules. Content administration & editing has become easier with Drupal 8 as it now has WYSIWYG editor. Twig template enables its users to easily design beautiful, functional and secure Drupal sites. Drupal 8 uses HTML5 as compared to Drupal 7 which used XHTML.
Some of the very important features of Drupal 8 are as follows:
1. Twig for secure and conversion-focused websites
Drupal 8 has new PHP based theming engine- Twig which is flexible, secure and fast. Twig compiles templates to plain optimized PHP code. It has its open architecture with the help of which one can easily implement own constructs (filters, tags, functions, operators, etc.)
2. Updated front-end library
In Drupal 8, frontend libraries include backbone, which is used in core for data modelling and state syncing. Drupal 8 also offers upgraded library versions of Jquery.
3. Addition of new fields
The new fields included in the Drupal 8 include the telephone number, date, email, links, reference fields etc. The Drupal 8 core enables the addition of more fields to nodes, comments, blocks, contact forms, taxonomy terms etc.
4. REST (Representational state transfer)
Drupal 8 now is equipped with the REST plugin which would implement methods of HTTP development to create, post and delete website content. As the web eco-system becomes more co-dependent on multiple third-party integrations, REST will enable the Drupal 8 users to interact easily with the content and website users using the standard interface.
5. Content editing made easy with CKEditor
CKEditor is the new feature of Drupal 8 which will make content editing easy and quick for its users.
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Benefits of Drupal 8
Features of Drupal 8 are great but how Drupal 8 is beneficial to you? How is it going to grow your business? Read the benefits here as in how Drupal 8 is going to help you increase conversions on your website.
- Drupal 8 follows the mobile first approach which will result in higher conversions as mobile is the future for web-based enterprises.
- The content administration has become easy which will result in higher time efficiency for the websites with a large amount of content.
- Enhanced security.
- Twig template for writing clean codes will also improve the search engine rankings of the website.
- Multi-lingual by default & equipped with HTML5
Conclusion
With Drupal 8 being so advanced and well equipped with features which make you future ready, getting the website developed using Drupal 8 or migrating to Drupal 8 is worth a consideration.
