Drupal Lightning

Lightning's mission is to enable developers to create great authoring experiences and empower editorial teams.

You'll notice that Lightning appears very sparse out of the box. This is by design. We want to empower editorial teams and enable developers to jump-start their site builds. That means that a developer should never have to undo something that Lightning has done. So we started with a blank slate and justified each addition from there.

Through custom modules and configuration, Lightning aims to target four functional areas:

Media

The current version of media includes the following functionality:

• A preconfigured Text Format (Rich Text) with CKEditor WYSIWYG.
• A media button (indicated by a star -- for now) within the WYSIWYG that launches a custom media widget.
• The ability to place media into the text area and have it fully embedded as it will appear in the live entity. The following media types are currently supported:
  • Tweets
  • Instagram posts
  • Videos (YouTube and Vimeo supported out of the box)
  • Images
• Drag-and-drop image uploads
• Ability to create new media through the media library (/media/add)
• Ability to embed tweets, Instagrams, and YouTube/Vimeo videos directly into CKEditor by pasting the video URL

Layout

Lightning includes the Panelizer module, which allows you to configure the layout of any content type using a drag-and-drop interface (Panels IPE). Lightning also includes a Landing Page content type for you to create landing pages with their own one-off layouts and content.

Any content type that uses Panelizer will allow you to set up default layouts for each view mode of that content type, which you can choose from (or override on a one-off basis) for individual pieces of content.

Eight layouts are provided out of the box by Panels. You can create your own layouts (see the Layout Plugin module) or install a contributed library of layouts like Radix Layouts.

Workflow

Lightning includes tools for building organization-specific content workflows. Out of the box, Lightning gives you the ability to manage content in one of four workflow states (draft, needs review, published, and archived). You can create as many additional states as you like and define transitions between them. It's also possible to schedule content (either a single node or many at once) to be transitioned between states at a specific future date and time.

Installing Lightning

The preferred way to install Lightning is using our Composer-based project template. It's easy!

If you don't want to use Composer, you can install Lightning the traditional way by downloading a tarball from our drupal.org project page.

Project Roadmap

The roadmap is subject to change, but our projected schedule is:

• QTR3/4, 2016
  • Point in time preview
  • Personalization
  • Workspace Preview System
  • Remote replication (store workspaces on external apps)
  • Search API integration

You can also look for general enhancements along the way. Please use the Lightning issue queue for latest information and to request features or bug fixes.

Resources

You can find general best practices documentation inside the help directory of each Lightning "base" module. Integration with the Advanced Help module is planned.

Please file issues in our drupal.org issue queue.

Running Tests

These instructions assume you have used Composer to install Lightning.

Behat

$ cd MYPROJECT/docroot/profiles/lightning
$ /path/to/MYPROJECT/bin/behat

If necessary, edit behat.local.yml to match your environment. Generally you will not need to do this.