Drupal Gutenberg and Unicef A Case Study
summary
Shows a working port of the WordPress Gutenberg editor into Drupal 8 with a stable 1.0 release and 800+ production sites, used on projects like UNICEF Norway (current site on Drupal 7, comms team ~5–20 people). Demonstrates custom blocks, live icon/color pickers, Drupal Views inside blocks, Cloud blocks served via CloudFlare, and a build workflow (npm, JS compilation). Notes content stores content in one body field and roadmap includes page templates with field mapping and media library integration.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00The need for better editors
- 2:23Introducing Gutenberg
- 5:22Core editor demo
- 11:15Real world applications
- 16:11Customizing block functionality
- 21:34Technical development process
- 28:25FAQ and performance
- 32:33Roadmap and future features
- 35:58Q&A session
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