DrupalCon Austin 2014: CREATING A BLOG IN DRUPAL 8 & CONFIGURATION API
Channel: Drupal Association
Date: 04/06/2014

Speakers: kepford
What's new and improved in Drupal 8? Can you build full featured web sites with Drupal core alone? The I will demonstrate that the answer is a strong YES! The following topics will be covered in this session.

Changes to fields
New HTML 5 elements
Improved content editing
Display & form mode changes
Better mobile support
Views in core
Configuration management
In this session we will walk through each of these topics covering what has been added to Drupal 8 and how it affects Drupal site builders and developers alike. Last but not least we will discuss how the Configuration API makes managing your site's configuration in code much easier. Attendees will see how they can import and export configuration as well as store it in custom directories to better fit into their deployment workflows.