DrupalCamp Poland 2025: A Community-Focused Event with Strong Technical and Editorial Insights

The annual DrupalCamp Poland 2025 took place once again at the SWPS University in Warsaw. As the country’s largest Drupal-focused gathering, it maintained its community-oriented format while welcoming speakers from across Europe. This year’s event featured 17 sessions delivered in both Polish and English, divided into two parallel tracks.

Opening and Welcome

The camp opened with a warm welcome and thanks to the sponsors, followed by a video greeting from Dries Buytaert, who expressed his appreciation for the Polish Drupal community. After the traditional group photo, attendees headed to the first sessions.

Modal Forms in Drupal Using the Dialog API

Marcin Grabias provided a clear overview of using modal forms in Drupal, aimed at intermediate users. His session covered multiple approaches to invoking modals, including the use-ajax class and the #ajax property. He also demonstrated how to handle the page state using AJAX response commands and emphasized the importance of setting a fixed form ID to avoid dynamic changes during re-rendering.

Drupal in Creative Agencies

Paweł Bogucki outlined the operational differences between local branding agencies, larger creative firms, and development houses. He shared practical communication strategies for dealing with multiple stakeholders in projects without a clear product owner, including:

• Sending follow-up emails with action points and responsibilities, setting clear deadlines
• Adapting communication to the client’s technical background
• The second half of his session showcased a workflow for mapping Drupal entities in Word and transforming them into structured JSON for import into Drupal.

Drupal Commerce Starshot Roadmap

Jakub Piasecki discussed the future of Drupal Commerce Kickstart, now aligned with the Starshot initiative. The project focuses on reusable Recipes that help set up product types, roles, forms, and permissions. He noted that while Recipes install modules and configuration, they are not uninstallable and must be used carefully.

Tools mentioned: Recipe Tracker, Commerce Config Actions.

Drupal Gutenberg 4: A Modern Content Editing Experience

Thor Andre Gretland delivered one of the standout sessions, showcasing the latest improvements to Gutenberg for Drupal. The editor now supports full-width editing, a Drupal-friendly UI, and deep integration with entity fields — including paragraphs, taxonomies, and user profiles. He demonstrated new features such as image focal point selection and AI collaboration tools.

Key takeaway: With the new UI and collaborative tools, Gutenberg in Drupal is closer than ever to tools like Notion or Google Docs — but tailored for web publishing.

Try: Gutenberg AI Tools

Automated Testing in Drupal Using Selenium

Paweł Górski demonstrated the process of creating automated browser tests using Selenium, combined with Docker, Xdebug, and an IDE. His setup was compared against the Open Europa Drupal distribution.

Accelerating Drupal Development with AI

Aleksander Ślązak showcased an impressive AI-powered workflow that translates designs from Figma into functional Drupal paragraphs, including template generation with CSS. The pipeline includes component recognition, field mapping, and automated front-end testing using Playwright.

Tools mentioned: Devstral , Cursor , Playwright .

Preventing Developer Burnout

Mariia Voloshyna addressed mental health and burnout, focusing on common causes like deadline pressure, performance anxiety, and perfectionism. She encouraged attendees to recognize patterns in their thought habits — with 80% of our daily 75,000 thoughts being negative and 95% repetitive — and shared the 4A framework:

• Ability to change,
• Adaptation,
• Acceptance,
• Ability to restore.

UI Suite Modules for Low-Code Drupal

Sharique Ahmed Farooqui introduced the UI Suite, a set of modules that extend Drupal's component-based editing experience. While highlighting the limitations of commercial low-code tools, he presented UI Suite as a structured, flexible alternative built on Single Directory Components.

Highlights and Action Points

DrupalCamp Poland 2025 once again proved to be an inspiring event, combining technical know-how with community spirit. For many attendees, it also offered a chance to explore Warsaw and reconnect with fellow Drupal professionals. The next edition is already highly anticipated.

To-do list from the event:

• Consider integrating Gutenberg into existing workflows,
• Review the UI Suite ecosystem,
• Play more with recipes,
• Try Devstral,
• Learn more about Docksal for local dev environments.