DrupalCon 2026: Page Builder Deathmatch: Canvas vs Display Builder - Slides

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The slides of our session at DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026, Wednesday 30 September, by Andi Rüther and Merlin Rutz. Find the recording on youtube.

• One real project in two page builders: the website of Nordhof eG, a housing cooperative, built in Drupal Canvas 1.11 and Display Builder 1.0.0-beta7 on Drupal 11.4 with the same Single Directory Components.
• Three rounds on the same requirements: header, menu and footer, the news card, and the campaign frontpage with a third-party embed.
• Extra rounds on pages from a prompt, multilingual sites, editor technology, compatibility with other modules and with each other, and forms.
• Two winners. Canvas fits editors who build pages without Drupal knowledge, and your agency learns a second stack, React included. Display Builder fits sites built on Drupal's data model and run by a Drupal-savvy team, and editors get a site-builder tool.