Due to major backward-compatibility-breaking changes the upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 is challenging. And if you don’t already have a team of developers with experience using the Drupal Migrate API, or support from a services agency that does, it’s a daunting task to tackle on your own.

In this workshop we’ll walk through the process of doing an inventory of an existing site, planning a migration, writing a custom Drupal-to-Drupal migration, and then executing that migration in a way that minimizes impact on the current live site. We’ll use a combination of short presentations, hands-on exercises, and group activities to help you gain valuable experience and practice. By the end of the workshop, you should be able to apply concepts in migration to your specific projects.

This workshop covers the Drupal core Migrate modules and essential contributed modules like Migrate Plus, Migrate Tools, and Migrate Upgrade.

You'll come away from this course knowing:

• Best practices for planning, and estimating, a migration
• A process to inventory your existing site and figure out what needs to be done
• What tools are available to help scaffold a migration instead of starting from scratch
• How to execute, test, and rollback, a migration or portions of a migration using Drush
• Ways to customize a migration to handle changes to your information architecture, or migrate only a sub-set of existing data
• Tips for completing a migration with minimal downtime and no need to freeze content on the current site
• How to handle files, relationships, and corrupt data sets
• Where to find additional help when you need it

In addition to the real-time instructor-led workshop, attendees will also receive:

• Example code with extensive documentation suitable for use as reference material for future migration projects
• A PDF workbook with exercises and solutions
• 1 month of free access to the entire Drupalize.Me tutorial catalog

Target audience

• Individual developers working on client sites who could use some help getting up to speed with the process of migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 or 9.
• Teams of developers working together, either at an agency or as part of an internal team, who want to level up their Drupal migration skills.
• Anyone wanting to gain some experience with migrating Drupal sites to help them do so more efficiently in the future.

Assumptions

• You’re familiar with Drupal, and have built one more Drupal sites, and are now looking to upgrade those sites.
• You’re comfortable with command line basics (moving directories, executing Drush commands, making database backups).
• You know PHP well enough to copy existing examples and make changes to them for your specific use-case.
• You know how to run Drupal in a local development environment. We’ll use DDEV, but as long as you can run CLI commands, write code, and make backups, you can use whatever environment suits you best.

Learn how to use Drupal as the backend for any application. In this front end framework-agnostic workshop we’ll learn how any HTTP client can interact with Drupal via a REST API. We'll cover best practices for important topics regarding the architecture of your API like presentation versus content, security, and documentation.

You’ll come away from this course knowing how to:

• Explain the role of Drupal core’s JSON API and REST modules, and when to use each one
• Authenticate requests using Session Authentication, and OAuth Authentication
• Make requests to Drupal’s API as a privileged user
• Create, update, and delete content entities via REST requests
• Upload files to an entity via REST
• Use API architecture best practices
• Provide high quality API documentation

We’ll use Postman (or your HTTP client of choice) to practice making JSON API requests to perform CRUD operations on Drupal entities, authenticate users, and modify application configuration. Leaving you with the skills necessary to write code in any language or framework that can interact with Drupal.

Target audience

• This would be a great first step for anyone wanting to get started with decoupled Drupal.
• Developers who want to learn how to make use of Drupal’s JSON API and other web services

Assumptions

You already have basic understanding of Drupal administration and are comfortable with doing things like creating content and users, installing modules, and configuring your application.

React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to create interactive user interfaces. Drupal is a content management system with a powerful web services API.

In this hands-on workshop we’ll walk through increasingly complex code examples that start with a "Hello World!" application, and end with a fully decoupled application that can list, create, update, and delete content in Drupal.

By the end of this workshop you’ll have a better understanding of how to integrate React and Drupal -- either by adding React to an existing Drupal theme or module and creating a progressively decoupled application, or through a fully decoupled application that uses Drupal for the backend and a create-react-app based React front end.

What you’ll learn in this workshop:

• An introduction to the technical side of React, terminology, and information about where to find more resources
• Drupal’s JSON API module, and how to work with the REST API it provides
• The use-cases for adding React to a Drupal site
• How to read, write, update, and delete Drupal content via React code
• Ways to authenticate a Drupal user via an API using React
• Compare the differences between integrating React into an existing Drupal theme or module and creating a stand-alone React application through example code and use-cases

We’ll focus primarily on the intersection between React and Drupal with a goal of giving you the information you need to start integrating your React framework of choice (Gatsby, Next.js, create-react-app, etc.) with Drupal.

Target audience

Developers who want to learn how to integrate React into a Drupal theme, or write stand-alone React applications that interact with Drupal.

Assumptions

• You already have a basic understanding of Drupal administration and are comfortable with doing things like creating content and users, installing modules, and configuring your application
• You can run Drupal on a local development environment
• You already know JavaScript. Knowing React isn’t a requirement to take this workshop, but you’ll likely get more out of it if you’ve at least been through the official Intro to React tutorial.