Drupal 7 and PHP’s end-of-life are right around the corner and many people are thinking about the best path forward.* The three options tend to be: a.) traditional “Lift and Shift” to Drupal 9, b.) “Lift, Shift and Improve a few things,” and c.) “totally rethink,” and rebuild the site. Each option produces a complex Drupal 9 site. Many Drupal 7 sites are layers of back-end code, complex front-end code, and content types that have evolved over the years. At first glance, the upgrade process seems insurmountably expensive, and not worth it. 

But we think there’s a better way. Chapter Three believes our Drupal 9 and Next.js integration, NEXT-Drupal (www.Next-Drupal.org) is a modern solution to upgrade your Drupal 7 site, giving you excellent installation of Drupal 9 and a great decoupled front-end! In other words, a true headless CMS. The best of both worlds!