Configuration validation, how we got here and what is in the future

Configuration schema's power most of the configuration of your drupal sites, making those validatable paves the path towards easier config forms, recipies and decoupled admin ui's.

Prerequisite

Outline
In this session I'll give a brief history of how we got here, the new things in drupal 10 and what is upcoming for 11.x what we could do beyond.

Drupal 8 shipped with many exciting new concepts, including “configuration”, “configuration and content entities”, “validation constraints” and “API-First”. It also allowed us to validate the configuration by putting constraints on it. Over the last year, there has been renewed interested in this area.
This session will highlight some of the big things that have happened in this space, allowing you all to make your config better.

Learning Objectives
Leaving this session, you should have a good idea how to make sure your own config is validatable, what that means for drupal, and hopefully you will be excited about the future.

Experience level
Beginner

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