Today marks a significant milestone for the Drupal community. Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert and the team behind Drupal Canvas have officially released version 1.0, and we couldn't be more excited to celebrate this achievement with the Drupal community.

If you haven't seen it yet, head over to Dries' announcement post to see what all the buzz is about. The new visual page builder brings a modern, intuitive editing experience that makes Drupal more accessible than ever before.

A Question We Keep Hearing

Since Canvas development started, people have asked us: "Aren't you worried about losing market share?

Our answer is a resounding no.

We believe in making a bigger pie together. When Drupal positions itself to capture market share among users who value this kind of intuitive editing experience, everyone in the ecosystem benefits. More people evaluating Drupal means more people discovering and evaluating the incredible Drupal modules available, including ours!

Learning from WordPress

The WordPress community has proven this model works beautifully. Despite having Gutenberg as a core page builder, their ecosystem supports an entire army of successful commercial page builders: Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and many more.

Our DXPR Builder UX is distinct in how we design for content editors as primary audience and site builders as secondary audience, whereas Canvas looks to have this switched switched around. Different tools optimized for different users.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Looking Ahead

We're genuinely thrilled to see Drupal evolving in this direction. Canvas 1.0 represents serious engineering effort and community collaboration. With Drupal CMS 2.0 shipping in less than two months with Canvas included, the future looks bright for everyone building on Drupal.

Congratulations to Dries and the entire Canvas team who made this possible. We know firsthand how challenging it is to build a visual page builder for Drupal, which makes this achievement even more impressive. A special recognition from the DXPR team goes to each Canvas team member: Ted Bowman, Tim Plunkett, Ben Mullins, Wim Leers, Gábor Hojtsy, Lauri Timmanee, Jesse Baker, Alex Bronstein, Griffyn Heels, Feliksas Mazeikis, and Harumi Jang. 

Here's to building a bigger, better Drupal ecosystem together. 🎉