The right way to check for empty content in Twig
Have you ever used {% if content|render|trim is not empty %} in twig to validate content is not empty? If so, you might end up with some surprises related to the use of the render method.
Drupal Development
Stop your builds failing with git pre commit hooks
Have you ever happily pushed your latest piece of work ready for others to test only to have it fail the build on coding standards? If so, git pre commit hooks could be your friend!
Why we no longer use Display Suite on new Drupal 8 projects
Display Suite is a handy module we've used for a long time. However for new projects utilising Layout Builder we've found we don't need it. Swap out Display Suite for Drupal 8 core blocks with contexts!
University of Technology Sydney
In continuation of a longstanding engagement, PreviousNext were invited by the University of Technology, Sydney, to redesign their website and upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8.
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Charles Darwin University: CMS Build
A new world university built on social justice, sustainability, creativity and collective effort, Charles Darwin University is committed to bringing people together to use knowledge to shape the future and has more than 24,000 students spread across 11 campuses and centres in the Northern Territory, Melbourne, Sydney and online. In September 2017, Charles Darwin University engaged PreviousNext for the redesign and Drupal 8 development of their existing website.
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If you've ever patched Drupal core with Composer you may have noticed patched files can sometimes end up in the wrong place like core/core or core/b. Thankfully there's a quick fix to ensure the files make it into the correct location.
Making your Drupal 10 kernel tests fail when there is an exception during cron
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.
Demo: Temporary environments powered by M8s and Kubernetes
We recently Open Sourced our temporary environment builder, M8s. In this blog post we will be demoing everything you need to get started!
Announcing M8s: A toolkit for ephemeral environments
Today we are open sourcing m8s (Pronounced just like the thoroughly Australian "Mates"), our tool for building temporary environments as part of our pull request build process.
Composing Docker Local Development: Networking
Its extremely important to have default values that you can rely on for local Drupal development, one of those is "localhost". In this blog post we will explore what is required to make our local development environment appear as "localhost".
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.
Energy Made Easy
The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) oversees energy markets and networks, and assists the ACCC with energy related issues for consumers. In late 2014, PreviousNext were engaged by the AER for the Drupal redevelopment of their Australian Government website, Energy Made Easy.
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