a data driven agile scrum tool in drupal 8
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A data driven app in Drupal 8Drupal 8: Our New Hope
www.kangolabs.com
@jezza
http://www.kangolabs.com/supernatural
Supernatural: A heavenly dynamic scrum tool. One tab. All day. Every day.
Introduction
Kango Labs is a digital product consultancy that develops products such as
websites and mobile apps
I am a co-founder of Kango Labs, Atlanta, Georgia
We are digital makers!
What specifically is the problem?
We have a lot to organize and we have not found a tool to do it just right.
• Basecamp
• Microsoft Project
• Physical boards
• Jira
• Trello
• Liquid Planner
Example: Liquid Planner
Difficult for day to day
and for individuals
https://app.liquidplanner.com
What else has been lacking?
Collect data from our sprint retrospectives and process
Create daily tasklists for developers
Easily plan out future sprints and goals
Provide a better summary across the whole team
Ease progress and time tracking
Enter D8: A supernatural aid
We are digital makers. Lets build our own in Drupal 8 (rc).
APIs / REST / Headless
Controllers and Views
All the strengths of Drupal and data modelling
Crossing the threshold
Good things for getting started
Stand it all up right
Establish the data models and build with the basics
Creating a basic custom module
Explore REST and Boostrap
Challenges along the way
Challenges to custom module and template development:
• New configuration in YML
• Routes and controllers and PHP namespaces
• No more drupal_add_js() -> libraries.yml + page attachments
• system_settings_form() -> \Drupal\Core\Form\ConfigFormBase
• Dealing with caching -> https://www.drupal.org/node/1903374
• In Controller actions -> \Drupal::service('page_cache_kill_switch')-
>trigger();
• In Configuration -> settings.local.php / default.services.yml
When things look their worst
Challenges to custom module and template development:
“The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.”
drush cr
Lean on your CI setup
Back to basics: Creating nodes and terms in your module is not very hard
Upgrading was difficult
Making it all look good
TWIG is great for building highly customized interfaces
Bootstrap base theme and bootswatch
Building workflow is even easier with named routes
Transformation!
Simple screens
Workflow
Custom data
http://kangolabs.com/sup
ernatural
Questions?Thank you!
www.kangolabs.com
@JBel_ATL
www.kangolabs.com