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Extra Block Types (EBT) - New Layout Builder experience❗

Extra Block Types (EBT) - styled, customizable block types: Slideshows, Tabs, Cards, Accordions and many others. Built-in settings for background, DOM Box, javascript plugins. Experience the future of layout building today.

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❗Extra Paragraph Types (EPT) - New Paragraphs experience

Extra Paragraph Types (EPT) - analogical paragraph based set of modules.

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13/04/2025, by Ivan

The Cache API has been significantly improved in Drupal 8. The following sections explore each feature in more detail.

For a quick overview, see the Cache API documentation page.

Cacheability Metadata

Everything that is rendered directly or used to determine what to render provides cacheability metadata — from access results to entities and URLs.

Cacheability metadata consists of three properties:

13/04/2025, by Ivan

Cache contexts = (request) contextual dependencies

Cache contexts are similar to the HTTP Vary header.

Why?

Cache contexts provide a way to create context-dependent variants of something that needs to be cached. It makes caching logic easier to read and avoids repeating the same conditional logic wherever context-based variation is needed.

Examples:

13/04/2025, by Ivan

Cache max-age = time-based dependencies

Cache max-age is similar to the HTTP max-age directive in the Cache-Control header.

Why?

Cache max-age provides a declarative way to create time-based cache dependencies.

13/04/2025, by Ivan

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. Varnish is used on thousands of Drupal sites to increase page load performance by 10-1000x, and it can be used with cache tags to simplify cache invalidation.

For basic cache tag integration, you need to do three things to ensure Varnish works well with the cache tags generated by Drupal:

13/04/2025, by Ivan

The Configuration API provides a central place for modules to store configuration data. This data can be simple configuration, such as your site name, or more complex information managed via configuration entities, such as views and content types.

Configuration is the place to store information that you want to synchronize from development to production. This information is often created during site building and typically not generated by regular users during normal site operation.