jack.taranto

If you need global state management for your app(s) (and you probably do), a relatively new flavour of Redux called Redux Toolkit makes this considerably easier. 

Video of Jack's DrupalSouth 2017 presentation.

At PNX, style guide driven development is our bag. It’s what we love: building a living document that provides awesome reference for all our front end components. And Drupal 8, with its use of Twig, complements this methodology perfectly. The ability to create a single component, and then embed that component and its markup throughout a Drupal site in a variety of different ways without having to use any tricks or hacks is a thing of beauty.

typey has just turned 1.0, so I thought it would be a great time to show off some of its features.

The bread and butter work for a themer is printing output on pages. In Drupal 7 there are many ways to achieve this goal: tpl files, Display Suite, theme functions, render arrays, etc. Yet often the easiest way to get some data on a page is via a preprocess function printing a variable into a tpl file.

Online advertising is a beast that is inherently un-responsive. Ad blocks with set dimensions are served from a 3rd party provider, making it is as inflexible as a concrete post. So when someone starts talking about responsive ads everyone will always go a little quiet, until someone in the room mutters something like “you can have responsive ads, providing all ad slots on the page are 300 wide”.

Despite that seemingly common attitude, after a little thought it’s really not that difficult to get your head around the concept of responsive ads: An ad provider serves our website three different ad sizes, one for each screen size we’re targeting. We then use a little JS and CSS media query love to show and hide each ad slot depending on the client’s device. Pretty straightforward right?

 

Display Suite is one of those modules that should exist in every themer's toolkit. It gives us tremendous power to get away from template files and assign layouts for just about anything via a UI. It also provides a lovely little hook that makes it very easy to add custom fields via a module.

You may have heard about Responsive Design and perhaps even implemented it. Take the next step with Drupal and The Omega theme...