Consider a small-mid size Drupal Project. Usually what happens is that once development is complete, sites (Drupal or Wordpress or any other framework) are left forgotten. This leaves the site vulnerable to attack, especially when a new Drupal security release is announced as it exposes the vulnerability publicly. It is good if a site is properly maintained & updated at regular intervals. But not at all recommended if left unattended. 

After a successful DrupalCamp Pune 2019 last September, the Pune Drupal community did not hold any meetups. Global Contribution Weekend was scheduled in January 2020, and I thought this would be a great opportunity for the Drupal Pune community to have a meetup as well. 

Drupal 8 brought a lot of new features along with it. Making it easier to create rich and beautiful pages. Among the new features included in Drupal 8.7, we saw the stable built-in drag-and-drop Layout Builder, updated Media Library interface, and more. Drupal 8.8 will be released in December 2019 and will be the last minor release with features. Let’s look at what Drupal 8.8 has in store for us.

Fiction has transformed into reality, one can pose questions to a device and get human-like reactions, stunning isn't it? This is what millions of users are doing every day with Alexa, Apple pod, Google assistant, etc. User interfaces have changed over time, and with each new user interface, a bundle of new difficulties has emerged. 

Go back in time and you’ll realize that every Drupal version upgrade has been drastically different from their predecessors.

Drupal 8.7.0 was released on 1st May 2019. Apart from bug fixes and dependency updates, Drupal 8.7 facilitates creating page layouts and media management.

At the point when Amazon launched Alexa, it changed the method for individuals connecting with the gadgets.Virtual assistants are quick getting to be ordinary in the home through items like Echo, Echo Show, Echo Dot, Echo Look and Amazon

When it comes to Drupal 8 theming layer, there is a lot Drupal 8 offers. Few concepts that come to mind while thinking of Drupal 8 theme layer include Renderable Array, Cacheabilty, Cache Context, Cache Tags, Twig and Preprocessors. Some of these are improvements of old concepts, while others are new introduction in Drupal 8. In this post, I'll share my experience on how to best utilise these concepts for a robust and performant frontend with Drupal 8.

In last couple of years we have seen the rise of assistants, AI is enabling our lives more and more and with help of devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo, its now entering our living rooms and changing how we interact with technology. In this post, we will explore Google Assistant Developer framework and how we can integrate it with Drupal.