Testing sort order with BrowserTestBase
Just a quick post to share a simple way to assert some markup is ordered correctly using BrowserTestBase
Drupal Development
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.
Custom views filters with Search API and Simple Hierarchical Select
A recent project involved the use of the Simple Hierarchical Select module to input category data for a particular content type. Simple Hierarchical Select provides a clean way of browsing hierarchical vocabularies to easily add taxonomy terms to nodes.
An initially tricky user interface problem to utilise this module with Search API and Views exposed filters was solved using a couple of Drupal 8 plugins and a bit of smart thinking!
Introducing Drush CMI tools
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.
Drupal 8 FTW: Is it a test or is it a form? Actually, its both
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.
Injecting Dependencies into Drupal 8 plugins
As part of our code review process for a current project, it was suggested that rather than calling the static Drupal formBuilder function to insert a form into a custom block, we actually inject the *Form Builder service* directly into the module, and for bonus points also inject the renderer service. I'd previously had exposure to dependency injection earlier on the same project but hadn’t exactly grokked the concept fully and so with a few pointers in the right direction, I set about refactoring the code I’d written using dependency injection and Drupal services.