Drupal's focus on a high-quality, maintainable architecture is paying off. Learn how even jr developers can efficiently build modern websites with Drupal in 2025.

Prerequisite
Knowledge of how websites are generally built using Drupal

Outline
Drupal has tread its own path from its early days. There was always a focus on a high-quality, maintainable architecture. This was often placed ahead of user experience and design.

Consider the history of innovation: Hooks, field API, entity API, migration to Symfony and Composer, layout builder in core, JSON API in core, and more.

These ideas - and the implementation behind them - were ahead of their time. We’ve reached an inflection point where we can now reap the benefits of long-term architectural decisions. Specifically, it is easier to build advanced websites with Drupal in 2025 than ever before.

We’ll discuss how to build a Drupal website in 2025 by leveraging new features, such as:
- Layout builder
- Component-based architecture with Twig & beyond
- Bundle-specific classes
- Better core theme
- Better admin theme
- And more!

Using the latest features Drupal has to offer will not only make your projects run more smoothly, but also enable more junior developers to participate with less training.

Learning Objectives
- Develop Drupal websites using component-based architecture
- Leverage modern tools and techniques for building Drupal sites in 2025 (and beyond)
- Enable junior developers to meaningfully contribute on Drupal projects earlier in their careers

Experience level
Beginner