Talking Drupal #463 - Drupal vs DIY Site Builders

August 12, 2024

Today we are talking about DIY Site Builders, what are the benefits over Drupal (If Any), and When using Drupal makes sense with guest Ivan Stegic. We’ll also cover Drupal 11 as our module of the week.

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Topics

  • What is a DIY site builder
  • Does TEN7 use DIY site builders
  • How are DIY site builders better than Drupal
  • Are they less expensive than Drupal
  • Have you ever suggested a site builder to a client
  • What does a migration from a site builder look like
  • Do you think starshot will make Drupal competitive with site builders

Resources

Module of the Week

Drupal 11
  • Brief description:
    • Have you been wanting a version of Drupal that can use Workspaces, Recipes, and Single Directory Components, while running all the latest versions of its underlying technologies? Drupal 11 is all of that and more
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created on Aug 2 by catch of Tag1 and Third & Grove
  • Module features and usage
    • Limited additions vs 10.3: by design to make the transition easier
      • Mostly in the recipes API, e.g. new config actions
    • Recap of new features vs. 10.0
      • Workspaces
      • Revisions and workflow are possible in the UI for Blocks and Taxonomy Terms
      • UI updates for creating and reusing fields, as well as bulk content operations
      • New Access Policy API and Single Directory Components
      • New Navigation and Announcements Feed modules
    • Contrib support out of the gate: about ⅔ of the top 200 modules already support Drupal 11
      • Adding modules that Rector estimates will only need info.yml or automated fixes brings us to over 80% of the top 200, or about 75% of all Drupal 10-compatible projects on Drupal.org
    • Updated dependencies: PHP 8.3, Symfony 7, CKEditor 5 42.0,2, Twig 3.9, Yarn 4, jQuery 4.0.0-beta, jQuery UI 1.14-beta.2 and more
    • Modules moved to contrib (smaller core):
      • Actions UI
      • Activity Tracker
      • Book
      • Forum
      • Statistics
      • Tour
    • Drupal 10 will receive maintenance support until mid-2026, so the community created this release of Drupal 11 early to give sites as much time as possible to make the transition, in this case almost 2 years!