How to integrate your pattern library with Drupal's layout builder using Component Blocks module
A short video showing how to use the newly released Component Blocks module.
My blog posts
Testing Twig templates and custom JavaScript with Jest
Jest is the defacto standard for testing in modern JavaScript, but until now, we haven't been able to leverage it for testing in Drupal. Thanks to twig-testing-library, that's changed.
Using Drupal's Entity Definition Update Manager to add bundle support to an existing content entity
On a client project we were using a custom Drupal content entity to model some lightweight reusable content.
The content entity was originally single use and did not support bundles (e.g. node entities have node-type bundles).
As the project evolved, we needed to add bundle support for the custom entity-type, despite it already being in production use.
Read on to find out how we achieved this.
Over 3000 reasons to come to the Drupal South 2019 sprint
The 2019 Drupal South sprint is shaping up to be the biggest contribution event in the Australia-Pacific region since Drupalcon Sydney 2013.
This year, core-contributors with over 3000 commit credits between them will be in attendance, including 3 members of the core committers team, 3 members of the Drupal security team, 7 core module/subsystem maintainers as well as maintainers of major contrib modules and command-line tools.
With Drupal 9 just around the corner, this will be a great chance to help the community get popular modules ready for Drupal 9, meet some great people and help shape the future of Drupal.
The PreviousNext team are sponsoring and helping to run the sprint day on Wednesday, November 27th 2019, and there are a few things you can do now to hit the ground running on the day.
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.
Ok Drupal - talking to Drupal
In November 2017 I presented at Drupal South on using Dialogflow to power conversational interfaces with Drupal.
The video and slides are below, the demo in which I talk to Drupal starts in the first minute.
Analysing churn in Drupal core
After reading a blog post by Matthias Noback on keeping an eye on code churn, I was motivated to run the churn php library over some modules in core to gauge the level of churn.
Is this something you might like to do on your modules? Read on for more information.
Safely extending Drupal 10 plugin classes without fear of constructor changes
From time to time you may find you need to extend another module's plugins to add new functionality.
You may also find you need to alter the signature of the constructor in order to inject additional dependencies.
However plugin constructors are considered internal in Drupal's BC policy.
So how do you safely do this without introducing the risk of breakage if things change.
In this article we'll show you a quick trick learned from Search API module to avoid this issue.
Sending Drupal entities to dialogflow with Chatbot API module
Services like dialogflow (formerly api.ai) do a much better job of natural language parsing (NLP) if they're aware of your entity names in advance.
For example, it can recognize that show me the weather in Bundabergis a request for weather in Bundaberg, if you've told it ahead of time that Bundaberg is a valid value for the City entity.
Having the entity values automatically update in your service of choice when they're created and changed in Drupal makes this much more efficient.
This article will show you how to achieve that.