Building Drupal 7 with Drupal 8 in mind

Since Drupal 8 has been released most Drupal 7 websites will eventually need to consider an upgrade to 8. If you are going to create a new Drupal 7 site it would be wise to include the Drupal 8 upgrade path in your planning as well. This means that you need to carefully choose which contributed modules to use, or select a Drupal distribution that also upgrades to 8.

Modules to avoid:
[List the modules here that should be avoided when planning to upgrade to Drupal 8]

Modules that have a Drupal 8 upgrade path:
See the Drupal 8 Contrib Porting Tracker.

Modules that have no Drupal 8 equivalent version:
See the Drupal 8 Contrib Porting Tracker.

Best practices for planning an upgrade to Drupal 8:
Check out the following resources:

• Upgrade Status module, for a personalized report on your site's D8 readiness.
• Drupal Module Upgrader, to help automate the porting of code.
• A guide on Converting modules from D7 to D8.
• API change records, which document changes from D7 to D8.