LN Webworks Amazing Experience at DrupalCon Barcelona 2024

As a Top-rated Drupal Development Company, attending DrupalCon Barcelona for the first time exceeded all of our expectations. The energy of the event was incredible, and it gave us the opportunity to connect with so many people in person. One of the standout moments was the inspiring StarShot initiative, whose marketing strategy makes a compelling case for businesses to consider Drupal as a solution.

Starshot / Drupal CMS Product Strategy

NO CODE website building, built on top of Drupal core itself. So, it will be easily able to beat the other no-code solutions like WIX, SQUARESPACE, and Shopify while still being able to maintain its open-source nature where you still will be able to have full control to customize and override things on your own.

Drupal Recipes

More strategic way to bundle up things like content, configuration, and documentation.

Example: You want to put Events on your website and basic needs include:

• Back-end to add all Events
• Front-end listing page
• Event Details Page
• Calendar

With one opt-in to install recipes for events from an available set of recipes you can get everything up and ready to use for the above scenario. Like events, there are 14 such recipes already in talks.

Drupal Agent

Drupal’s own Chat GPT is available on the Admin back-end to make the Admin’s job easy. With simple language instructions, you can get:

• Content Types Created
• Fields created
• Adjust Field configurations and then change the order in which they appear
• Create Basic Views

Drupal AI

Migrate Content from Existing setup to Drupal With Drupal AI which will automatically structure it well. Imagine having a site where you struggled to organize it in proper components for migration when everything existed as part of the Body content. We could definitely relate to it because we handled one such thing where HTML was written in the body field.

Experience Builder

Rectify Admin Back-end which is going to eat up the Drupal Native Bac-end and going to make an amazing experience for Editors.

Try Out StarShot/ Drupal CMS Demo In Browser

No server required

https://project.pages.drupalcode.org/drupal_cms

Drupal CMS Timeline

The 1.0 version of Starshop/ Drupal CMS is supposed to be ready by the First month of 2025. And guess what, the Drupal CMS 2.0 will include the experienced builder itself too which is supposed to be ready by the end of 2025

Project Browser

The Admin interface to install the module is no longer going to be there, but it will be replaced by Project Browser. Now the main thing is how Project Browser varies from the Basic Admin Interface to install the module.

• Project Browser runs the Composer behind the scenes which makes sure that all dependent libraries are installed too.
• And what else, like WordPress, you wouldn’t have to leave the site to find the modules. You can find all the modules available from the back end of your site.

Drupal Starshot / CMS Codebase

Here you can find the codebase itself for starshot and contribute accordingly: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal_cms

The best candidate as per us for Contribution.

• Fine-tune the Drupal Agent
• We believe there is a lot of scope for Recipes where everything can be converted to Recipes. Like the Groups module function itself or many more.

More Takeaways

• A lot of companies promote the DXP solutions and I believe it makes sense and is a value for money Solution as well. Very soon, we will be updating more details about how LN Webworks is going to accommodate this model for good.
• Future of headless considering a lot of newbies are more keen to learn the Front-end technologies rather than learning the TWIG for templating.

Highlights Of Team LN at Barcelona

• Open stage Session about complex Ubercart Drupal 7 store migration

• Fun Activity we organized: Drupal’s CEO, Tim Doyle, and Drupal’s Founder, Dries couldn’t resist participating as well.
• Our Contribution Day Participation.

• Indian Restaurants we explored: Tapas Curry and Rice, Rasoi Ghar, Spicey Hut. Rasoi Ghar is must place to hang out if you are craving Indian food https://www.tripadvisor.in/Restaurant_Review-g187497-d23426169-Reviews-Rasoi_Ghar-Barcelona_Catalonia.html
• Some Spanish Restaurants where we ordered Indian food though 😉 The spinach burger is a definite one to try : https://www.tripadvisor.in/Restaurant_Review-g187497-d12713187-Reviews-Kurz_Gut_Gaudi-Barcelona_Catalonia.html
• Beauties of Barcelona : Sagrada Familia , Park Güell, Paseo de Gracia.
• Inspiring Things in Barcelona: An organized system for everything whether it is about people walking on the street who have to wait for the lights to be turned on before they cross the road, or about having a proper system for guides providing the radios and headphones to visitors.

Big Shout-Out To All Winners For Women In Drupal Award

Winners Pamela Barone, All Petrovska, and Esmeralda Tijhoff took home the awards, acknowledging their accomplishments in the Drupal community. And we got chance to meet Esmeralda in person and that Women has a different vibe and standards for sure.

Find Dries Note Here

Don’t regret on not to be able to attend the DrupalCon, you can find the Dries 40th note here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhPiL4g972A&t=1540s

Final Thoughts

Our first experience at DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 was beyond our expectations. The vibrant atmosphere and opportunities to network made it memorable, with the StarShot initiative standing out for its innovative marketing strategy. New features like Drupal Recipes, Drupal AI, and the Project Browser promise to revolutionize the Drupal ecosystem, offering powerful no-code and streamlined development solutions.

LN Webworks is excited to apply these insights and innovations to elevate our offerings and contribute to the future of Drupal development. Barcelona has inspired us, and we look forward to the next DrupalCon Singapore 2024.

The Author

Shikha Kumar

Co-Founder & Director