Panels used to have a views row plugin in Drupal 7 which allowed users to place view's fields on panels' layouts. Since panel's layout functionality has been split off into Layout Plugin for Drupal 8, the views plugin no longer has any dependency on the Panels module. We therefore chose to also create a separate project for the views plugin to reduce the maintenance burden on the panels team.

Differences between 8.x-1.x and 8.x-2.x

1.x was created to work together with the layout_plugin module as mentioned above. layout_plugin module was later adopted by Drupal 8.3 as layout_discovery module and 2.x is compatible with that.

Dependencies:
8.x-1.x:
- Views (part of Drupal core)
- Layout plugin (https://drupal.org/project/layout_plugin)

8.x-2.x
- Views (part of Drupal core)
- Layout Discovery (part of Drupal core)

Modules providing layouts that this module can use
- Panels
- Display Suite

Supporting organizations: 
Funding for the initial port of the plugin.

Project information

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