A practical session on porting or writing modules to follow modern best practice object oriented PHP. Key points are:

• Iterative refactoring procedural code into modern object oriented PHP
• Making Drupal 7 modules Drupal 8 ready
• Common Drupal 8 Design Patterns (Observer pattern, Dependency Injection)
• Important changes in Drupal 8 that affect module development (eg. routes)
• Automate tools to assist in conversion of Drupal 7 modules to Drupal 8 (I am the author of Pharborist which is one such tool)
• Unit testing and mocking to drive higher quality code and faster development