Issue 278 - February, 23rd 2017

News

"Now that Drupal 8.3 is in beta, it is time to look at progress around core initiatives again and see how you can help move one or more of them forward."

Megan Sanicki announces industry pages. "The pages are designed to quickly inform and inspire technical evaluators and connect them to service providers and technology vendors who can help them move further through their Drupal adoption journey."

Changes were announced for DrupalCon Vienna including canceling some of the planned activities in order to make the event more sustainable. Rachel Friesen explains more on the Drupal Association blog.

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Lullabot's John Hannah walks us through the architecture of a Drupal backed React.js app.

Gábor Hojtsy shares some of the progress and accomplishments made on the UX front in Drupal 8 and encourages others to join in the effort.

Sponsored

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Tutorials

"In this article we are going to look at how we can render images using image styles in Drupal 8."

Sponsored

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Lullabot's Mateu Aguiló Bosch gives a closer look into serialization in Drupal 8.

Releases

Video

Watch Janez Urevc's talk from Drupal dev days Milano about the Entity Browser module.

Podcasts

Finally

A little bit of fun from the Agiledrop blog.