Applying new Drupal 8 core field types

The field system is what makes creating content in Drupal so robust. With Drupal 8, some of the most used contributed field types have been merged into Drupal core as their own module. In fact, Entity Reference is no longer a module but part of the main Field API now.

This recipe is actually a collection of mini-recipes to highlight the new fields provided by Drupal 8 core: Link, Email, Telephone, Date, and Entity reference.