Compare site creation in Drupal 8 and Symfony Discuss strengths and weaknesses of both platforms

1. Evaluate Drupal & Symfony
for your next project

2. Speakers
Yuriy Gerasimov
Solution Architect
Taras Omelianenko
CEO and co-founder

3. What we compare?
Content Management
Framework
Web Application
Framework

4. Agenda
Core
1. Architecture
2. Authentication
3. Doctrine and Entity API
4. Views
5. Multilingual
6. REST API
7. Frontend
Extensions
1. Admin Pages
2. Commerce
3. Webforms
4. Rules
5. Panels
6. Media
7. Caching
3-ty party solutions for Commerce

5. CORE

6. Architecture

7. Architecture

8. Authentication

9. Authentication
Drupal
1. route based
2. permissions / roles
Symfony
1. acl
2. encoders
3. providers
4. firewalls
5. access_control
a. role_hierarchy
+ annotations
FOSUserBundle

10. Doctrine and Entity API

11. Drupal
1. Entity API wrappers
2. Named classes
Symfony
1. DBAL
2. ORM (Entity & DQL)
3. Normalizers & Data
transformers
4. Entity Autoloading
5. Annotations
6. Validation
7. Events handling

12. Views

13. Views
Drupal
1. Part of core in D8
2. data output
Symfony
1. Twig
2. Codebase or bundle

14. Multilingual

15. Drupal
1. Translate interface
2. Content
3. Configuration
Symfony
1. Configuration
2. The Translation Process
3. Message Placeholders
4. Pluralization
5. Translations in
Templates
6. Templates (Twig)
7. Translating Database
Content
(DoctrineExtensions)

16. REST API

17. REST API
Drupal
1. Part of core in D8 CRUD
2. Services
Symfony
1. NelmioApiDocBundle
2. JMS Serializer
3. FOSRestBundle
OR
api-platform.com
OR
...

18. Bundles
● nelmio/NelmioApiDocBundle
● schmittjoh/serializer (JMS Serializer)
● FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle

19. Frontend

20. Frontend
Drupal
1. Twig
2. jQuery 2.x
3. backbone
Symfony
1. Twig
2. Assets

21. EXTENSIONS

22. Admin Pages

23. Sonata Project

25. Forms

26. Forms
Drupal
1. Classes
2. validation / submission
3. ajax
Symfony
1. Building
2. Rendering
3. Handling

27. Forms

28. Update & Deployment

29. Updates
Drupal
1. hook_update_X
2. configuration
management
Symfony
1. Git
2. Migrations
a. DoctrineMigrationsBundle
b. Entity schema:update
Tools
1. Ansible
2. Capifony
3. ...

30. COMMERCE

31. Commerce
Drupal Commerce
1. products
2. variants / pricing
3. orders management
4. plugins taxes, shipping
Symfony
1. Sell on multiple
channels
2. Multiple currencies
3. Localisation
4. Products
5. Cart, Orders & invoices
6. Taxes
7. Customizable checkout
process
8. Many payment methods

33. Questions & Answers

34. THANK YOU

35. Architecture