Over the last few months we've worked with more and more Drupal 8 sites. Those projects all had one thing in common ... they used the Paragraphs module.

Paragraphs is a very popular module for handling content in Drupal 8. Paragraphs works in a similar way to content fields, but also provides a wide range of options for the design, layout and grouping of your content. 

Instead of putting all their content in one WYSIWYG body field, end-users can choose on-the-fly between pre-defined Paragraph Types independent from one another. Paragraph Types can be anything from a simple text block or image to a complex and configurable slideshow.

Often as web developers, we create sites that are meant to be used day-to-day by mostly non-technical users.

One pain point of this for many people—developers and clients alike—is the process of trying to implement a method of content creation that non-technical users can easily understand but that also provides all the options they need to create content in the ways that they want. For example, clients might understand how to add a pull quote into a content body, but it might not end up centered or formatted quite correctly. They may also want to do something more complex such as include an ancillary box of information inside an article, in which case they might not even know where to begin.