Drupal 8.4.0 comes out in October, and at that time 8.3.x will be end-of-life (EOL).
There are two major vendor updates in 8.4.0 so the time to test your contrib and client projects is now.
In this post we talk about the coming changes and how to test your client and contrib projects.
Conversational UIs are the next digital frontier.
And as always, Drupal is right there on the frontier, helping you leverage your existing content and data to power more than just web-pages.
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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.
Just a quick post to share a simple way to assert some markup is ordered correctly using BrowserTestBase
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.
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.
Now we've got the experience of a number of production D8 sites under our belt we took the time to consolidate our CMI workflow into some useful drush commands.
And naturally we've open sourced them.
Read on to find out more about our drush CMI tools.
As you'd be aware by now - Drupal 8 features lots of refactoring of form procedural code to object-oriented.
One such refactoring was the way forms are build, validated and executed.
One cool side-effect of this is that you can now build and test a form with a single class.
Yep that's right, the form and the test are one and the same - read on to find out more.
Drupal's Batch API is great, it allows you to easily perform long running processes with feedback to the user.
But during Drupal 8's development processes it was one of the remaining systems that didn't get the full object oriented, service-based architecture.
Much of the batch API is largely unchanged from Drupal 7.
But that doesn't mean you can't write unit-testable callbacks.
Let's get started.