DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019:External Design Systems in Practice

This talk, presented by Brian Perry, discusses the critical decisions involved in developing a design system or pattern library for Drupal projects. The speaker shares insights from a rebranding project that involved migrating multiple sites to Drupal 8, highlighting the advantages of treating the design system as an external dependency. The session covers the structure of a design system repository, managing Composer dependencies, and integrating Twig components with WordPress using the Timber Plugin. It also delves into challenges and future improvements, as well as strategies for using a shared design system in decoupled Drupal projects that involve multiple templating engines like React. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the benefits and implementation strategies of external design systems in web development.