Shockingly Fast Site Development with Acquia Lightning 4.0
- 1. Shockingly Fast Site Development with Acquia Lightning 4.0 Matthew Grasmick, Drupal Product Leader @ Acquia David Aponovich, Product Marketer @ Acquia May 22, 2019
- 2. 2 Today’s Speakers David Aponovich Senior Product Mktg Director, Acquia Matthew Grasmick Sr. Manager of Product Management, Acquia
- 3. 3 Agenda ○ Acquia Intro ○ The Challenge ○ Lightning Overview ○ Lightning 4.0! ○ Demo ○ Questions & answers
- 4. 94% Customer Satisfaction Rating Leveraging Drupal, the Largest Open Source Community 3,500+ customers, including 1,800 enterprises 30+ Fortune 100 customers 800+ Employees Global Partner Program GDPR Ready We provide the world’s most ambitious brands with technology that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia, we believe in the power of community — giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms. THE OPEN SOURCE DIGITAL EXPERIENCE COMPANY WHO WE ARE
- 5. WHY COMPANIES CHOOSE ACQUIA – Open Source and Cloud-native – Freedom to own your digital roadmap – Innovation, agility, and speed-to-market – Flexible deployment architecture – Cost efficient
- 6. N Y C C H I C A G O H Q B O S T O N D C A U S T I N P O R T L A N D B R I S B A N E G H E N T M U N I C H D E L H I P A R I S R E A D I N G S Y D N E Y T O R O N T O S F
- 7. 7  Customers Media & Entertainment Public Sector Higher Education CPG / Retail
- 8. 8  Customers Technology Life Sciences Financial Services Others
- 9. 9 The Challenge Building new sites and applications requires greater speed
- 10. 10  Pressure is on developers and site builders - Organizations are rushing to operate better in service of the customer - Developers must be able to build, launch & iterate rapidly - Brands want great, content-rich experiences across every channel - Marketing & content teams must be empowered to create & manage content - Building and deploying content & experiences in the cloud is a mandate “Application development and delivery leaders feel pressure from both customers and competitors to accelerate the pace of software innovation.” -Forrester Research
- 11. 11  New demands for content teams, too Marketers and content teams need enterprise authoring capabilities to create compelling content for digital experiences Requirements include: - Easy to use creation and editing tools - Workflow tools for process & collaboration - Publishing tools to get content to market quickly & efficiently
- 12. 12  Thousands of organizations building with Drupal 8 - Drupal 8 is a powerful solution for building web sites and digital experiences - Adoption by brands, enterprises, government, non-profit and other organizations is driven by Drupal 8 and its feature-rich module ecosystem
- 13. Building a Drupal site requires a lot of up-front work
- 14. 14  You don’t start with a polished site.
- 15. 15  You start with a framework. … to build a site
- 16. 16  Module ecosystem is rich yet tough to navigate Selecting the right Drupal modules when building your application requires time, effort, and complex analysis. – 2,100+ contributed projects extend Drupal 8’s capabilities – Features & functionality – Integrations – Themes and UX improvements – Nearly 6,000 projects under development
- 17. 17  Distributions enable developers to move quickly Distributions package up Drupal core plus additional projects such as themes, modules, and libraries. Many distributions exist: – Some distributions are full featured solutions to specific use cases: – Commerce – Government – Education – Some are starting points for developers and site builders
- 18. ©2018 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary Lightning LAYOUT MEDIA WORKFLOW APIs For building enterprise authoring experiences
- 19. 19  Why Acquia created the Lightning distribution Based on our work with partners, customers, and the Drupal community, we knew we needed to provide a strong starting point for D8 projects: – Address capabilities not yet present in Drupal core – Accelerate developer and site builder experiences – Support modern developer workflows
- 20. 20 Example Scenario Let’s say ... want to build a site with the following basic features: 1. Media 2. Layout 3. Workflow 4. APIs Nearly every site needs 1-3.
- 21. 21 Where do you start? 1. Research options (modules, libraries, etc.) 2. Download and install contrib modules. 3. Configure modules. 4. Create “glue code” to make them play nicely. 5. Write tests
- 22. 22  Drupal Layout Workflow Media APIs 0% 100% site complete Feature x Feature y ... Site Building & Development
- 24. 24  Drupal Layout Workflow Media APIs 0% 100% site complete Feature x Feature y ... Site Building & Development Site Building & DevelopmentDrupal Lightning
- 25. Wait, doesn’t Drupal core do those things?
- 26. MEDIA – Support media types: ○ Audio files ○ Tweets ○ Instagram posts ○ Videos ○ Images – Drag-and-drop bulk image uploads – Image cropping – Slideshows and carousels – Media Library – Embeddable w/ WYSIWYG LAYOUT – Drag-and-drop interface – Per content type and per node layouts – 8 default layouts out-of-the-box – Layout Discovery support WORKFLOW – Default workflow states – Workflow scheduling – Moderation Sidebar – Moderation Dashboard APIs – JSON API – Open API Docs – OAuth – Open SSL support Lightning 3 does more than core 8.6.
- 27. Some of this is in Drupal 8.7
- 28. MEDIA – Support media types: ○ Audio files ○ Tweets ○ Instagram posts ○ Videos ○ Images – Drag-and-drop bulk image uploads – Image cropping – Slideshows and carousels – Media Library – Embeddable w/ WYSIWYG LAYOUT – Drag-and-drop interface – Per content type and per node layouts – Layout Discovery support – 8 default layouts out-of-the-box WORKFLOW – Default workflow states – Workflow scheduling – Moderation Sidebar – Moderation Dashboard APIs – JSON API – Open API Docs – OAuth – Open SSL support Lightning 3 does more than core 8.7
- 29. Lightning delivers the best of Drupal, early.
- 30. Lightning 4.x w/ Drupal 8.7.x available now!
- 31. MEDIA – Support media types: ○ Audio files ○ Tweets ○ Instagram posts ○ Videos ○ Images – Drag-and-drop bulk image uploads – Image cropping – Slideshows and carousels – Media Library – Embeddable w/ WYSIWYG LAYOUT – Drag-and-drop interface – Per content type and per node layouts – Layout Discovery support – 8 default layouts out-of-the-box WORKFLOW – Default workflow states – Workflow scheduling – Moderation Sidebar – Moderation Dashboard APIs – JSON API – Open API Docs – OAuth – Open SSL support Lightning 4 does more than core 8.7
- 32. MEDIA – Support media types: ○ Audio files ○ Tweets ○ Instagram posts ○ Videos ○ Images – Drag-and-drop bulk image uploads – Image cropping – Slideshows and carousels – Embeddable w/ WYSIWYG LAYOUT WORKFLOW – Default workflow states – Workflow scheduling – Moderation Sidebar – Moderation Dashboard APIs – Open API Docs – OAuth – Open SSL support Lightning 4 does more than core 8.7
- 33. MEDIA – Support media types: ○ Audio files ○ Tweets ○ Instagram posts ○ Videos ○ Images – Drag-and-drop bulk image uploads – Image cropping – Slideshows and carousels – Embeddable w/ WYSIWYG LAYOUT – Layout Builder replaces Panels – Default LB components: ○ Google Map ○ Slideshow ○ Media ○ Banner ○ Text – Default content types and layouts (basic page) WORKFLOW – Default workflow states – Workflow scheduling – Moderation Sidebar – Moderation Dashboard – Revisions, and Landing Pages just work APIs – Open API Docs – OAuth – Open SSL support Lightning 4 does more than core 8.7 Admin UI – New Claro theme!
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- 36. Preview of Admin UI
- 39. Try it now!
- 40. 40 ©2018 Acquia Inc. — Confidential and Proprietary https://lightning.acquia.com/
- 41. 41  $ composer create-project acquia/lightning-project MY_PROJECT $ cd MY_PROJECT && composer quick-start http://bit.ly/getlightning
- 42. June 4th, 2019 2:00 - 5:30 pm San Francisco Marriott Union Square acquia.com/events/experience-acquia
- 43. Questions?
- 44. 44 Seed Questions ● Do I need to be on Acquia Cloud to use Lighting 4? ● Is there a migrate path from Lightning 3 to Lightning 4? ● What’s coming up in Lightning’s roadmap? ● How much faster will development be with Lightning?