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As developers, we go to a lot of effort to create user experiences that we want to believe are intuitive. We often even create detailed documentation that we would love the user to read.  The reality is that users typically just want to poke around and try to figure things out on their own. Sometimes this is a good path and other times, especially when we are introducing new or custom concepts, this can end with a lot of frustration.   

Drupal core’s front end was last revamped in Drupal 8 with the introduction of the Twig templating system, but unlike other parts of the core, it has since largely remained stagnant… until recently (dun dun dun)! 

In this article, I'm going to tell you about my favorite things coming soon to the front end of Drupal 10 core ordered roughly by their use case. Many of these features will be in December’s 10.0.0 release on Dec. 14, but some will come in later releases.

Early in my career as a developer working with educational institutions, media organizations and other large companies, I could see that I stood on a figurative battlefield.

IT departments had fought a war with their marketing or communications counterparts over who truly owned the website. IT departments had incentives to slow down changes to prioritize stability and security. Marketing professionals had incentives to chase faster changes. That often meant giving more people access to more layers of the stack.