A Modern CMS For Drupal Developers

When you think of any modern open source content management system (CMS), one name comes automatically in the first place and that is Drupal. This content management system holds a firm position in the CMS market. Since years it has been the most preferred name in content management system for designing and developing high web traffic websites. Websites like Twitter built on Drupal platform has enough proof of its robustness. Statistics portray that almost 1.5 million of websites which are now online are developed in Drupal platform. Out of all websites built on open source content management systems, Drupal has been utilized to design 8% of them. The said CMS is a clear winner in the content management system arena for quite some time now. We expect that the latest version, Drupal 8, will also continue the winning streak as its previous versions.

Drupal is widely renowned for their innovative technology and we have seen that with every Drupal versions some new features are added to make the task of website development much easier than before. The content managemenet system, today, is quite popular in the market. Drupal 7 was used to build almost 56% of websites. The fact speaks all!

In such a scenario, Drupal 8 has caught a lot of attention from developers and all circles of website related technologies and businesses. The transition from Drupal 7 to 8 was smooth and people who were first made aware of all updates are Drupal developers who actually work on this CMS to create smart websites. Anticipations are rising and we all want to know everything about the upgrades and modifications made. There are features which will make the content management system popular among Drupal developers and open source CMS lovers.

Here we will discuss about the changes made in the latest version of Drupal which will make this CMS a darling for developers.

Configuration Management

People who have used Drupal 7 might have faced hardships in migration from development server to production server. The primary reason for this is that in Drupal, configurations and content are both stored in a database table. When you make any change in the configuration and try to push the same into production server, the content is found to be overridden.

In order to tackle this problem, Drupal 8 has been introduced with a new and innovative configuration management system. This new system provides Drupal developers with the flexibility so that they can observe and control all the changes they want to make and push them to the production chamber.

Object Oriented Programming

With the lastest version of Drupal content management system, Drupal developers will be able to work on an object oriented approach. Most features of this CMS is actually based on Object Oriented Programming paradigm. The change is a reflection of the result of a huge internal debate in the Drupal fraternity on Object Oriented Programming vs. Procedural Programming. This system actually has made the task of Drupal developers quite easy and hence they are comfortable using this open source CMS for multiple website development projects. They can now customize modules and change the behavious of the content management system as per their convenience.

New Highly Improved APIs and More Libraries

Drupal 8 is loaded with new fronted libraries such as Backbone. It is integrated with core Drupal. This CMS also incorporates most of its components from PHP community which helps it in becoming flexible and attains the power for developers who can create their own modules with great robustness.

With so many functionalities, one might start worrying about the usages of Drupal 8. Many people are thinking that in spite of smart features, this new version might not help Drupal developers in the long run. But believe me, this modern and smart content management system with so many tools and modules will be a great play for developers. It is already creating buzz in the CMS market and developers will have a first hand experience with it.