John Jameson

Fun and games with D8 Media (coming to core!), with examples from the branding and news content on Princeton.edu.

This will be a whirlwind tour to see what's possible and how to make it happen; I'll throw out lots of examples and code samples and try not to overlap too much with Media Explained.

What's coming to core?
The site-builder experience of setting up media bundles in D8: how to configure image bundles with things like captions and bylines and oEmbed fields.
Theming your bundle's view modes, using the site-builder UI, CSS and your theme's Twig.
Bundles of bundles! Make it easy for your editors to grab groups of media items and display them as slideshows or clusters or galleries or masonry grids or before/after comparators or...and swap back in forth between these layouts right in the node editor.
Making your bundles play nice with CKEditor -- tips and tricks to provide your editors with a true WYSIWYG experience.
Optimize your bundles for front-end performance using responsive images and lazy loading.