Front End Development

During this session, Jason will discuss his experience of creating and adopting a contrib-first approach at Nerdery. He will highlight takeaways from his experience and review specific examples of contrib-first activities/tasks that a project team can undertake during a project's lifecycle.

The Progressive Werb App module has mature releases for Drupal 7 and 8, and instantly adds all necessary features to your Drupal site to pass the Lighthouse PWA audit. This session is suitable for all levels and we will cover:

• What is a Progressive Web App? - we will cover this in depth from a user and developer perspective
• Why would I want my site to be a Progressive Web App?
• Gotchas and insight from being in the trenches.

Achieve Internet has taken on co-maintainership of the pwa module. Come get your info from the horse's mouth.

You might think that you don't have time to do user testing. Or you might be scared what you'll see if you watch people use your website or walk through the signup steps for your app. You might have heard of user journeys, but believe that they are too much trouble to map out. In fact, there are lots of easy ways to start practicing user experience design that aren't scary or time-consuming.

Over the course of my 13 long (and sometimes painful!) years of developing in Drupal, I’ve learned a number of tips, tricks, and strategies that will help one become a better Drupal front-end developer. Many of these are too short to merit their own session, but are too long to fit into a lightning-style talk.

In this session, I’m going to combine 3-4 unrelated topics that will leave you excited to go do more Drupal front-end work!

Topics may or may not include:

This talk is around the potential of splitting up the theming layer of Drupal. It'll be interesting for people familiar with Drupal Theming and those who are heavily interested in cutting edge frontend.

What if you don't need to decouple, to have some fun?

What if you could make your CSS and JS over 90% more lean, with just a slice of opinion?

What if the theming layer, is actually in your way?

What if someone is going to tell you about a cutting-edge native Drupal frontend alternative?

Would you come?