Talking Drupal #421 - The Future of Drupal

Today we are talking about The Future of Drupal article, What
Challenges Drupal may have, and How we can overcome them
together! with guest Ricardo Marcelino.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/421
Topics

Can you describe the article this topic is based on

Module percentages

Drupal’s challenges

Drupal’s unique selling proposition

How can Drupal expand relevance

Why is relevance important

How does Drupal move forward

What’s next for Drupal

Do you think this is a natural change for a project like
Drupal

How do we ensure the future of Drupal

Resources

The Future of Drupal

Drupal Day Portugal Slides

Dries note

Guests

Ricardo Marcelino - omibee.com rfmarcelino
Hosts

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

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
(Next.js)[https://www.drupal.org/project/next]


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to build a website with a
React-based front end, but with lots of the robust and mature
CMS capabilities that Drupal provides? There’s a module for
that.



Brief history

How old: created in Jan 2021 by shadcn, who continues to
support it, including in the #nextjs channel in Drupal slack



Versions available:

1.6.3 for Drupal 9 & 10



Maintainership

Actively maintained, though it uses a Github repo as its
place for collaboration, including issues



Number of open issues:

135 open, 12 of them bugs



Test coverage? Y

Usage stats:

1,249 sites



Maintainer(s):

shadcdn, who continues to support it, including in the
#nextjs channel in Drupal slack



Module features and usage:

For anyone not familiar with Next.js, it’s a React
framework for building front-end applications that gives
developers a number a number of useful capabilities, such as
dynamic routing, performance optimizations, integrations, and
more

The Next.js module for Drupal optimizes your Drupal
backend for use as the content repository for a Next.js front
end

It add functionality like headless preview of unpublished
content, even across multiple front end apps

It also supports Incremental Site Regeneration, a best
practice to ensure your front end site can serve static pages
for the fastest possible delivery, but without the risk of
serving stale content

Works with the JSON:API Menu Items and JSON:API Views
Drupal modules to allow even more of your front end site to
be managed within your Drupal backend

There’s even a Next.js Webform module that allows your
Drupal site builder to create webforms, and have the React
forms automatically created

There is also a specialized version of Next.js, a
“next-drupal-basic-starter”, also maintained by shadcn, that
helps to get your Next.js front end working with Drupal more
quickly