How to create and expose computed properties to the REST API in Drupal 8In Drupal 8.5.0, the "processed" property of text fields is available in REST which means that REST apps can render the HTML output of a textarea without worrying about the filter formats.In this post, I will show you how you can add your own processed fields to be output via the REST API.Jibran Ijaz Senior Drupal Developer
Patch Drupal core without things ending up in core/core or core/bIf 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.Saul Willers Senior Developer
Containerized Databases for DevelopersAnnouncing MySQL Toolkit, a set of commands for sanitising, packaging and deploying MySQL images.Nick Schuch Operations Lead
A Review: Web Directions Design Leaders and Design 2018Web Directions Design was held over three days in April 2018 with great presentations spanning a broad range of topics across the design industry. Some were focused on emerging technologies such as eye tracking, Blockchain and voice UI, others on the importance of research and ethics in design. Richard Sison User Experience Lead
Making your Drupal 8 kernel tests fail when there is an exception during cronSeveral 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.Lee Rowlands Senior Developer
Bare Templates: Removing Unnecessary Markup in Twig filesIn most of the projects we build, the HTML markup provided by core just gets in the way. There is way too many wrapper divs. This can cause issues when trying to create lean markup that matches what is produced in a generated styleguide.In this post, I'll introduce you to the concept of bare templates, and how you can remove unnecessary markup from your Twig templates.Pasan Gamage Drupal Developer
Configuration Override Inspector: Removing the Config ConfusionSince the release of Drupal 8, it has become tricky to determine what and where override configuration is set.Here are some of the options for a better user experience.Daniel Phin Developer
Creating a custom LinkIt matcher pluginIn one of our recent projects, our client made a request to use LinkIt module to insert file links to content from the group module. However, with the added distinction of making sure that only content that is in the same group as the content they are editing is suggested in the matches.Here’s how we did it.Pasan Gamage Drupal Developer
New in core: a layout builder for Drupal 8.5.0Drupal 8.5.0 will come with a new experimental module, Layout Builder.What is layout builder? Well its basically panelizer in core.Watch the screencast for a quick run down of how to setup, configure and use it.Lee Rowlands Senior Developer