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Huh, it's been years since I thought about Drupal. I actually got my first major start in the tech field developing Drupal solutions for various organizations a
by treesknees 4y ago
Huh, it's been years since I thought about Drupal. I actually got my first major start in the tech field developing Drupal solutions for various organizations and companies. I remember the war room we put together for upgrading our clients, and all the testing we did to make sure the dozens of modules and themes would work correctly.
I always thought Drupal was great because it allowed less-technical folks to really build an interactive web application without having to write any code. We occasionally had to dive into some PHP or JavaScript, but in general we built great websites without having to do much "custom" coding beyond the themes.
- vfclists 4y agoAll those non-technical folk were dumped when Drupal decided to go "enterprise" and started to demand composer, docker and VMs to get Drupal going. Jeff Geerling's series on trying to upgrade his fairly basic blog to Drupal 8 showed what Drupal has become.
- treesknees 4y agoPerhaps I used the wrong term. I really meant for those who are more operationally focused than development. IE you don't need to write code to get a nice Drupal website. I think it's always been the case that if you wanted to get it up in the first place, you needed to know a bit about MySQL, Apache config, and potentially PHP config. Again I haven't touched Drupal in a long time, but sounds like some of those were replaced with newer technologies like Docker, which are still more operationally focused.