Over the past month, I have been working on a large scale Drupal 8 build that is leveraging the Layout Builder module for much of the site’s displays. If you are not familiar with Layout Builder, it’s a fairly new initiative that hit Drupal 8 core as an experimental module in 8.5 and then gained full status in 8.7.
So far, I am really enjoying using Layout Builder, my point of view being very much form a theming perspective. In my option, Layout Builder is almost like a hybrid between Panels and Paragraphs. It’s ideal for content-centric sites where you’d like to hand over more control of content display to editors while keeping to a structured modular content model. This paradigm should sound vaguely familiar for those folks who have been building with Paragraphs.
“Drupal 8’s Layout Builder allows content editors and site builders to easily and quickly create …