what's up with javascript and drupal 8
DESCRIPTION
This talk will show what has been accomplished in the past year for core javascript and explain what's left for the last few months before code freeze. A few topics you can expect to show up: Performance Which JS library got in core and why Tools and workflow JS clean-up As well as some future-facing questions: New policies for third party JS API changes (PHP and JS) How can contrib deal with JS-related changes What's still missing for D8 There will be mention of some crazy ideas that might work from contrib.TRANSCRIPT
What's up with javascript & Drupal
Théodore 'nod_' Biadala
JS Maintainer for Drupal coreTechnical consultant @ Acquia
Frontendunited, London 2013
Who?
nod_ — February 2012(cue months of wishing for another maintainer)
seutje — August 2012
jessebeach — September 2012
8
Library Upgrade policy
Core will ship withlatest version*
Library Upgrade policy
Core will ship withlatest version*
Tools
testing
fat module
Community
Impression of a JS dev by a Drupal dev
Webchick learning Javascript
Michael Schmid, CC-BY 2.0
Javascript Clean-up#1415788
Script dependencies
hook_library_info() {
$lib['myscript'] = array(
'js' => array($path . '/somefile.js' => array()),
'dependencies' => array(
array('system', 'jquery'),
array('system', 'drupal'),
arrary('system', 'drupalSettings'),
),
);
return $lib;
}
performance?
Editor: IE10
node/1
add/article
node/add
node
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JSCSSHTML
Front-end time (ms)
Editor: IE10 – No toolbar
node/1
add/article
node/add
node
0 50 100 150 200 250
JSCSSHTML
Front-end time (ms)
Visitor: IE10
node/1
node
0 50 100 150 200 250
JSCSSHTML
Front-end time (ms)
In Drupal 8
JS libraries will be upgraded
Declare all your dependencies
Core front-end performance is… ok!
