Talking Drupal #422 - Commerce Kickstart

Today we are talking about Commerce Kickstart, Commerce in
General, and What’s new at Centarro with guest Ryan Szrama. We’ll
also cover Navigation as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/422
Topics

High level overview of commerce kickstart

Is it a distribution

Will it move to recipes

Why use commerce directly over kickstart

Does kickstart lend itself to a specific type of site

Compare with Shopify

Do you ever recommend Shopify

Are there additional conditions or events being added

Can people contribute to kickstart

What is Centarro focused on now

What is the state of headless

Resources

Selling File Downloads and certificates through Drupal
Commerce

Commerce Kickstart

Driesnote

Methodical coffee

Guests

Ryan Szarma - ryanszrama.com rszrama
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Mark Casias - kanopi.com - markie
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Navigation


Brief description:

Would you like to try out and give feedback on a proposed
overhaul to how Drupal’s administration menu works? There’s a
module for that.



Brief history

How old: project created in 2004, but the namespace was
taken over earlier this year as a place to work on the
proposed new navigation in the contrib space

Versions available: No releases yet, so you need to clone
the repo into your custom modules



Maintainership

Very active development, commits in the past day



Number of open issues:

46, 14 of which are bugs



Usage stats:

Officially 1 site is using it, but not recommended for
production anyway



Maintainer(s):

Include Christina Chumillas, Sascha Eggenberger, Lauri
Eskola, Mike Herschel, and more



Module features and usage

At this point, really a prototype, trying to define what
the user experience should be

Worth noting that the latest release for the Gin admin
theme also includes this new updated navigation as an
experimental feature that can be updated, but still best to
leave feedback on the Navigation project

The main idea is that instead of having dropdowns that
fly out for deeper level menu items, the navigation is in a
sidebar, with menu items that expand to reveal child items
when clicked

It’s worth noting that dropdown menus with multiple
levels handled in flyouts are a known usability pain point,
and are often cited by industry experts like Jakob Neilsen as
something to avoid

There are still some usability issues to be thought
through with this approach, for example there is no longer a
way to reach the top page of a section or subsection, because
clicking on the link shows or hides the child items instead

This was a subject of some very active discussions at
DrupalCon Europe last week, so I thought it would be good to
cover this week, so our listeners can add their voices