A short video showing how to use the newly released Component Blocks module.
Jest is the defacto standard for testing in modern JavaScript, but until now, we haven't been able to leverage it for testing in Drupal. Thanks to twig-testing-library, that's changed.
On a client project we were using a custom Drupal content entity to model some lightweight reusable content.
The content entity was originally single use and did not support bundles (e.g. node entities have node-type bundles).
As the project evolved, we needed to add bundle support for the custom entity-type, despite it already being in production use.
Read on to find out how we achieved this.
The 2019 Drupal South sprint is shaping up to be the biggest contribution event in the Australia-Pacific region since Drupalcon Sydney 2013.
This year, core-contributors with over 3000 commit credits between them will be in attendance, including 3 members of the core committers team, 3 members of the Drupal security team, 7 core module/subsystem maintainers as well as maintainers of major contrib modules and command-line tools.
With Drupal 9 just around the corner, this will be a great chance to help the community get popular modules ready for Drupal 9, meet some great people and help shape the future of Drupal.
The PreviousNext team are sponsoring and helping to run the sprint day on Wednesday, November 27th 2019, and there are a few things you can do now to hit the ground running on the day.
Several times in the past I've been caught out by Drupal's cron handler silently catching exceptions during tests.
Your test fails, and there is no clue as to why.
Read on to find out how to shine some light on this, by making your kernel tests fail on any exception during cron.
Drupal 8.5.0 will come with a new experimental module, Layout Builder.
What is layout builder? Well its basically panelizer in core.
Watch the screencast for a quick run down of how to setup, configure and use it.
In November 2017 I presented at Drupal South on using Dialogflow to power conversational interfaces with Drupal.
The video and slides are below, the demo in which I talk to Drupal starts in the first minute.
After reading a blog post by Matthias Noback on keeping an eye on code churn, I was motivated to run the churn php library over some modules in core to gauge the level of churn.
Is this something you might like to do on your modules? Read on for more information.
Need a way to mix fields from referenced entities with regular fields from managed display?
Then the Display Suite Chained Fields module might be for you.