Front-end technology stacks tend to move quickly. At PreviousNext, we have been constantly evolving the tech stack to take advantage of best-practice.
In this post, we take a closer look at the front-end tools we use at PreviousNext in 2021 and some of the rationale behind the decisions.
As a company that's been running since 2009 we've evolved our working culture and approaches over the course of the past decade. When new people do join we provide them with a handbook that outlines how we work together and the benefits we all enjoy, so we wanted to share some of this publicly for people that might be considering roles we're currently advertising.
As a follow up to some recent blog posts, as well as improvements in PHPStorm and ddev, I’d like to share the following configuration for running and debugging tests via PHPStorm's phpunit integration.
The PreviousNext team is co-sponsoring and coordinating the DrupalSouth 2021 Sprint Days (Online) on Friday 20 August and Friday 12 November 2021, and there are a few things you can do now to hit the ground running.
Layout plugins in Drupal are typically declared via a YML file, with the regions nominated ahead of time.
But what happens if you need your regions to be dynamic - e.g. an arbitrary number of tabs in a tabset?
In this post we explore how to declare a layout plugin with dynamic regions.
The media and media library modules have improved Drupal's file handling capabilities considerably, but one oft-requested feature of clients is the ability to remove files from disk when removing the associated media entity.
This is where the Media file delete module can help
Securing filter formats is one of the most important tasks when setting up a new site.
But sometimes when you inherit a site you find it wasn't done securely, or perhaps over time the format has gotten a bit lax and you want to make changes.
The Filter Format Audit module makes this task easy.
Drush CMI Tools was the standard approach for config management at PreviousNext prior to Drupal 9. For Drupal 9, Drush CMI tools has been deprecated and replaced by a community-supported project which provides the same functionality — Config Ignore 3.
A new contrib module that makes it easy for content editors to create Media Entities from existing Files
Caching issues can be one of the hardest things to track down in a website. This is especially the case when you have external caches involved that can't be entirely replicated on a local stack, like AWS's ElastiCache Redis in clustered mode!