Talking Drupal #463 - Drupal vs DIY Site Builders

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.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/463
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

Workspaces Extra

Talking Drupal 451 - Just say Drupal

Shopify

Webflow

Wix

Squarespace

Wordpress vip

Cosmic.build

Preshow:

Eurion constellation



Guests

Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Josh Miller - joshmiller
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


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:

Drupal 11



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!