Making content editors happy in Drupal 8 with Entity Browser

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bYMoXh7GewL0nzglOH1lZ6vxzj1NFiO9fk-WaVEwOa4/edit#slide=id.p

Have you ever wanted a standardized, flexible and pluggable solution for creating sites that allow:

• Uploading multiple images / files at once
• Selecting and re-using an image / file already present on the server
• Using an arbitrary view as Media gallery or Content gallery for your editors
• Creating related content without having to exit the main content form
• Etc.

Entity Browser is a Drupal 8 contrib module that was created to solve these common needs in a generic and flexible architecture. While this allows for powerful tools and workflows to be implemented, the price is often an increased learning curve about how to properly configure and fine-tune it for the different use cases.

In this session we will:

• Explain the basic architecture of the module, and how to take advantage of its plugin-based approach to extend and customize it.
• See how to configure it from scratch to solve different use-cases, including some pitfalls that often occur on that process.
• Check what we can copy or re-use from other contrib modules.
• Explore some possible integrations with other parts of the Media ecosystem.

Although not mandatory, the audience of this session is expected to have basic site-building experience with Drupal 8, allowing them to follow along the demos and configuration steps more easily.