Moving from D7 to Backdrop CMS - Stanford Off-Campus Learning Opportunities (SOLO)

Drupal 7 is wobbling towards end-of-life, with PHP 7.x close by its side. Webmasters, marketing and communications teams, and product owners everywhere are asking the same question: What’s next for my Drupal 7 platform?

Backdrop CMS is just one of a variety of upgrade paths for your Drupal 7 website — but in special cases it’s the right one. I’ll save you some skimming: Upgrading from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS is a good fit if you’re happy with your existing platform.

The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components

There has been no shortage of both fair and unfair criticism toward Web Components from a wide range of folks that build for the web, including but not limited to JavaScript Framework authors in supposed competition with the platform. In this session I’ll show you how to navigate and simplify the multifaceted landscape of web components, satisfying common criticisms and showing how you can Use the Platform most effectively today.

Rendering techniques, and how to choose between them

The way we choose to populate and deliver the pages of our sites and applications can have profound effects on performance, accessibility, discoverability, and complexity.

There is a seemingly endless number of options available. SSR? SPA? MPA? SSG? DPR? ISR? So many acronyms! So many choices! Which is the best? The answer of course is “it depends”. But on what does it depend? How can we make the best decision for our projects, our users, and our developers? What are the questions we should ask to help us make the most appropriate and most informed choices?

Building Full-Stack Serverless Applications

Building applications is a constant fight between scalability, developer experience, user experience, reliability amongst many other factors. 
 

Serverless Applications get to live in an almost Goldilocks zone of productivity, allowing you to build faster and easier than building your own infrastructure. 
 

We’ll cover what Serverless is, how it works, and ultimately how to build anything with Serverless technology. 

Exploring the Power of Custom Fields in Drupal: Best Practices and Real-World Use Cases

Drupal Field UI makes it easy for site builders to create custom content types and entities. With a few clicks, any citizen developer can contribute to the site’s architecture. Most sites can be created with Drupal core fields and possibly a handful of contrib modules. But how do we know when our business-needs have grown beyond the common field types? What secret powers can we unlock by creating custom fields, widgets, and formatters? And what are the trade-offs and incurred technical debt by rolling custom solutions?

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