Drupal 8 represents a major shift away from “Drupalisms” to mainstream object-orientated PHP. Experienced developers who are used to other frameworks like Symfony, should find it much easier to pick up Drupal now than they would have in Drupal 7 and previous versions. But this shift presents challenges for those of who are used to the Drupal 7 way of doing things and aren’t necessarily up to speed with all the new PHP best practices.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing tutorials on some of the key concepts you need to understand in order to master Drupal 8 module development. This week, we are going to look at namespaces.