Display Builder, the HTMX-powered visual builder
Drupal’s front stack is actually under exciting modernization. Pierre, a Core’s provisional front-end manager, will show how those changes and additions can help us build modern UI and revolutionize the display building experience.
HTMX is now in Drupal Core as a light, modern replacement of many legacy AJAX APIs. The addition is also opening new easy ways of building modern, performant, highly interactive, user interfaces for both the admin and front UI, without the need of javascript frameworks.
One of those UI is the new Display Builder contrib module, which is leveraging HTMX to provide a display building experience both unified (page layouts, entity displays, content and more) and powerful (design system native, live previews, iterative updates, realtime collaboration, adaptive profiles…).
We will explore this magic together, and understand how it can be an inspiration for other Drupal UIs, providing a reactive, world-class, user experience while keeping the implementation lean and maintainable.
Drupaler since 2006 (20 years!) . In love with Design Sytems and Visual building. Core lead, provisional front-end manager. Founder and leader of UI Suite. Belgium beer drinker ;)