The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Planet Drupal

A starter kit for new Drupal folks

In this newcomer guide, you will find:

• How to accelerate the onboarding process and how to get a fresh Drupal 8 install, for testing.
• The documentation reduced to the essential for the following topics: tools, projects, Drupal concepts and drupalisms, main events, contribution and service providers.
• A brief comparison of other solutions, and when to use Drupal.

Drupal.org is a gold mine of documentation when you know where to look but, as a newcomer, you can quickly be overwhelmed by the amount of contents and the learning curve.

It comes from the observation that, as a developer from another technology stack, it took me some time and the luck of meeting the right persons to be aware of the richness of the Drupal ecosystem and the people that make it live.

So new Drupal people probably need a fast ship to visit the Planet Drupal and maybe stay a while.

Main goals of the Drupalship

• Provide a starting point for newcomers.
• Reduce the documentation to the essential.
• Install Drupal 8 fast, for testing.
• Compare with other solutions and give you the arguments to convince (or not) your client, your manager or yourself.
• Produce a maintainable documentation, that could be eligible for translation.
• And some more points described in the project roadmap.

There are at least 42 reasons to

start your journey on Drupalship.org