Demystifying Drupal 8 plugins

Plugins are Drupal 8's way of writing swappable pieces of code. Whenever you need to extend an interface or a module and add a slightly different functionality, think plugins.

In this session we will discuss:

1. what exactly a plugin is(did you know that plugins existed in Drupal 7 also?)
2. how the plugin system works in Drupal 8
3. what are the different plugin types in Drupal 8 core
4. plugin discovery mechanisms

Oh, did I mention we will learn write our own custom plugin all along the session!

A 4 part blog post series I wrote provides a glimpse of what I'll cover in this session.

http://www.lakshminp.com/the-drupal-8-plugin-system-part-1/

http://www.lakshminp.com/the-drupal-8-plugin-system-part-2/

http://www.lakshminp.com/the-drupal-8-plugin-system-part-3/

http://www.lakshminp.com/the-drupal-8-plugin-system-part-4/