Composing Docker Local Development: Xdebug (OSX)
In this post, we will show the pain points of running Xdebug in a Docker local development environment and how we overcame them.
Drupal Development
Intro to Cherry Picking with Git
When you are working with a team of developers on a medium to large sized project, managing the changes between a number of git branches can become a complex task. Sometimes you don't want to merge a whole branch into another, and only need to pick one or two specific commits. This process is called 'cherry picking'.
Lightning talk: Custom CKEditor Widgets in Drupal 8
We're starting up our Lightning talks again during our weekly developer meetings here at PreviousNext. This week was about wiring up a straight forward plugin.js and extending CKEditorPluginBase to create a custom CKEditor widget in Drupal 8.
Watch the video for a run through of how this is done in Drupal 8.
Using Composer to debug issues updating Drupal core
This week whilst trying to update one of our projects to the latest version of Drupal 8 core, we had some issues.
We use Composer to manage our dependencies, modules etc, and on this particular occasion, things weren't straightforward.
In order to solve it, we had to use some of the lesser known features of Composer, so decided to share.
Testing sort order with BrowserTestBase
Just a quick post to share a simple way to assert some markup is ordered correctly using BrowserTestBase
Introduction to Drupal Patch Files
I recently joined PreviousNext and was soon getting acquainted with contributing to Drupal core and contrib projects. A big part of the contribution workflow is working with patch files in the issue queue, so I wrote this post to help anyone who wants to know about patching in Drupal.
Skipper: Tooling for DevOps
Over the years we’ve embraced the idea of DevOps within our organisation. That is, bringing the developers closer to operations, and visa versa, to be more collaborative, embrace our agile processes, and become more efficient. When we designed Skipper, our Kubernetes-based container hosting platform, this was the focus of our attention.
Faster Hierarchies with Nested Sets and the Entity Reference Hierarchy module.
In Drupal 7 we used Node Hierarchy module to keep track of a hierarchy of pages. Node hierarchy ties directly to the menu system. When getting a list of all ancestors or descendents, it is a O(n) operation, and at least one site we use it on has a lot of nodes in the tree. Performance was terrible. Add to that it has no notion of revisions or forward revisions, so changing the parent and saving a draft can cause all sorts of issues with your menu. When the time came to update the site to Drupal 8, we took a different approach.
Presentation: At 16 years of age - does Drupal have an identity problem?
At Drupal South 2016, I attempted to summarize some of my pain points with Drupal core.
The session 'At 16 years of age, does Drupal have an identity problem' is the result of this.
You can watch the recording, or download the slides below.
Launching an AJAX modal from a WYSWIYG link and customising the response with MainContentRendererInterface in Drupal 8
On a recent project a feature was requested to allow admins to launch some content within a modal window from the WYSWIYG on a Drupal 8 website. The goals were as follows:
- Open any content on the site in a modal window.
- Fall back to a plain link for search engines and non-js based browsers.
- Implement a branded modal design.
This is how we accomplished it.
We could add default content to Drupal core, but what would that mean?
There has been some movement of late around adding some default content to the standard profile.
This was originally reignited by Roy Scholten in his getting something in the box post.
As author and co-maintainer of the default content module for Drupal 8, I wanted to share my thoughts on the potential of adding it to Drupal core.