Starting with the Front (End)

Last year at DrupalCon, we proudly declared the front end to be the equal of our back end counterparts in practice and skill.

This year, we reaffirm the unique importance of our role: the front end is the intersection of presentation and structure, content and experience, and design and engineering.

There are a lot of front end-related topics we should talk about at DrupalCon, and not just changes that come from Drupal 8. Certainly, D8 will bring a whole host of new goodies like the new; Twig template engine, new CSS Architecture, and new core themes — and we’ll definitely need sessions about all these, for sure — but we shouldn’t take our eye off the greater trends in the front end universe, either.

In fact, it could be argued that changes in the greater front end ecosystem are bigger than D8 itself. Changes like our ever-evolving language standards; our overflowing development toolkits and the tools we use to keep our tools manageable; automation; testing; automated testing; back end and front end coming together into a weird mishmash where the old rules don’t apply anymore; new ways to think about design and how to work with designers; the decoupling and componentization of all the things ...and that’s just the start!

So much to talk about, and so much to learn.

We can’t wait to learn from your experiences, and we look forward to putting together a challenging and informative track, looking towards the future of front end both within and outside of Drupal.

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David Hwang
Front End Track Chair
DrupalCon Los Angeles