[support] Drupal 8 how to

[Jamie Holly]

You aren't going to find any solid tutorials for awhile. Drupal 8 is 
still in beta, with a lot of outstanding issues, so things can and most 
likely will change. For now the best bet is to look at the modules that 
ship with D8, as well as contrib modules that are out there already, 
including the ever helpful examples module:

https://www.drupal.org/project/examples

Another great resource is to just keep an eye on Planet Drupal:

https://www.drupal.org/planet

Outside of that, not much more help. Just dive into the code and see 
what's going on. A good IDE comes in handy for this (personally I use 
PHPStorm, which is really nice with D8 given the Symfony support, but 
Netbeans is also a great choice). I say once summer hits, you'll start 
seeing a lot more. Even the first D8 book is scheduled to hit the 
virtual shelves then:

https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/drupal-8-module-development

Jamie Holly
http://hollyit.net

On 1/17/2015 7:12 PM, Roger wrote:
> Drupal 8 = $wow.
> Have used Drupal 6 and 7 and am building a test events bookings site in
> Drupal 8 beta because I am accustomed to models views controllers way of
> doing things from Angular and Rails plus the added advantages of HTML5
> and CSS3 are obvious.  Creating modules seems easier to me, I never got
> the hang of hook_something_alter.
>
> 1. Tutorials
> I've run into problems with tutorials about creating D8 modules. While
> all essentially say the same thing, none actually work, all tuts give
> YAML syntax errors.
> Where can I get tutorials that actually work and don't shut down the
> site? Even the latest ones on Lynda.com seem out of date.
>
> 2. Forms
> Forms in Drupal can be very long 10-20 fields and difficult to reformat
> and no way I can find to reference the form instance id to enable
> breaking the form into small field sets.
> How can a form be broken into several sections/pages to lead the person
> completing the details through a couple of fields at a time?
>
> 3. Are there any example tuts for sending payment to a bank without
> using ecommerce modules?
>
> Thank you for any assistance, it's much appreciated.
> Arel
>
>
>