Advantages
- It has a rich functionality base: advanced menu management, graphics modification tool, user management
- Allows the user to create and manage many content types, such as: videos, polls, podcasts, statistics and others
- Drupal has several thousand plugins available, and users can also create their own plugins if needed
- It has integrated modules for graphic elements design
- Drupal is open source, so new plugins and modules are developed constantly
- The support is very good, ranging from written documentation to forums and chat support
Disadvantages
- Drupal is pretty complex and might require some effort for installation and maintenance
- It will generate increasingly bigger server loads for bigger websites
- Getting used to Drupal requires time and effort, and from this point of view, Drupal is the most difficult CMS to master (among the popular ones)
- It requires more computer resources due to the large number of features and plugins
- Due to the fact that Drupal usually receives large updates, additional time is required to fully understand the new changes
- When releasing new features and updates, the development team might neglect backward compatibility for outdated versions
Components
- Rule components
- Action set
- Condition set
- Rule set
Development tools
- OpenDevShop
- Git
- Composer
- NetBeans
