Mike Herchel
Founder / Dev at Dripyard
Mike is a founder / developer at Dripyard, where every theme is crafted with beautiful designs, proper Drupal integration, and a rock-solid foundation you can trust.
Mike is the lead dev and maintainer for Olivero (Drupal core's default theme), and is also a maintainer for Drupal core's CSS subsystem.
He is passionate about web performance, usability, and accessibility. You can often find him speaking on these subjects at DrupalCamps, DrupalCons, and various other web development conferences.
Drupal’s theming layer has grown by leaps and bounds over the past several years. We’ve seen new Twig filters, theme generation tools, and the introduction of Single Directory Components.
Those changes, however, will pale in comparison to what’s coming in the next few years. The introduction of Drupal Canvas (formerly known as Experience Builder) paired with modern artificial intelligence will revolutionize how we work.
In this presentation, I’ll walk you through
- Developing components for Experience Builder
- How will AI fit into your front-end workflow
- What should be a component and what is not?
- Best practices that will reduce code bloat
- How to future proof the code that you’re writing now
To get the most out of this session, it’ll help to be familiar with general Drupal theming practices, gotchas, and painpoints.