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Introduction

Drupal is one of the leading open-source Content Management Systems in the market today. Over the years it has evolved into a very efficient and powerful CMS for creating content-based web applications. It carries the potential to be infinitely enhanced through customized development and installation of contributed modules.

Drupal 8 has many extensive functionalities with myriad tools to build bigger sites faster. With its unique features and the ability to cater to every need, Drupal 8 has gained popularity among developers across the globe. It has mobile friendly modules, multilingual capabilities, Twig templating system, automated testing, mechanisms to export data via RESTful APIs, Symphony stack, and much more.

DRUPAL 8GAINING POPULARITY WORLDWIDE

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DRUPAL 8 – GAINING POPULARITY WORLDWIDE

Approximately 763,000 websites around the world are running on Drupal and 2.1% of all the websites from personal blogging sites to corporate, government and political sites are using Drupal as a CMS.

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Want to read and understand all the key features of Drupal 8 and why it is the most popular CMS?

TO THE NEW lays down 12 key features of Drupal 8. Here are a couple of them:

1. BigPipe for Perceived Performance- Drupal 8 provides the advanced implementation of Facebook’s BigPipe page rendering strategy. This module makes things faster and leads to greatly improved perceived page performance with dynamic, personalised, and non-cacheable content.

2. Developer API Improvements- Drupal 8.1.0 includes many backward-compatible API additions for developers. It provides a revision log interface, field definitions for key fields, route providers for auto-generation, etc.