Let’s take the best route - Exploring Drupal 8 Routing System

Session content

Drupal 8's routing system came from Symfony's. Drupal's routing system can do everything Symfony's can (and more).
Drupal 7 used hook_menus. In Drupal 8 module’s routes are defined in yaml files and these trigger actions defined in module’s controller.

In our talk, we're going to cover

• How Routing happens in Symfony

• How Drupal 8 makes use Symfony’s routing system using yaml and controllers

• How is Different from Drupal 7

• What all(and more) Drupal’s routing system can do

• Execution precedence of same routes

• Structuring Drupal 8 routes

• A working demo

Takeaways

• Defining your own routes your own way.

• Best practices while defining routes.

• At the end of this session you be see how routing dumps a URL matcher or generator specific to a particular routes and how it maps an HTTP requests.

Prerequisites

• Understanding of Drupal 8 module development is required.

• Experience with Object Oriented Programming will be advantageous.