Views has a very extensible architecture and there are a large number of contributed modules that extend the functions of views to allow many different types of displays. At the time of release of Drupal 8, a search of Drupal.org modules using the category Views resulted in 65 modules; not all are extensions and some, such as CTools, are support modules that are tagged for Views, because they are necessary for older versions of Drupal. That number climbed to 85 with Drupal 8.0.2. The number will continue to grow as modules are converted to Drupal 8 by their authors or the community. By comparison, at the time of release of Drupal 8.0.2, there were 608 Drupal 7 modules in the Views category.

In this chapter, we'll install and configure Views Slideshow to create a rotating carousel of featured property images. Then we'll build a very simple Google map using the views formatter integrated in the Drupal 8 version of the Geolocation module, since the traditional "go to...