Drupal Development

Front-end technology stacks tend to move quickly. At PreviousNext, we are constantly evolving the tech stack to take advantage of best practices.

Check out my detailed configuration for running and debugging tests via PHPStorm's PHPUnit integration with DDev and xdebug.

After a great turnout in August, the PreviousNext team is co-sponsoring and coordinating the DrupalSouth 2021 Sprint Day (Online) again on Friday 12 November 2021, and there are a few things you can do now to hit the ground running.

Layout plugins in Drupal are typically declared via a YML file, with the regions nominated ahead of time. But what happens if you need your regions to be dynamic, such as an arbitrary number of tabs in a tabset? 

The media and media library modules have improved Drupal's file handling capabilities considerably, but clients commonly request the ability to remove files from disk when removing the associated media entity. This is where the Media file delete module can help

Securing filter formats is one of the most important tasks when setting up a new site. The Filter Format Audit module makes this task easy.

Prior to Drupal 9, Drush CMI Tools was our standard approach for config management. Drush CMI tools have been deprecated for Drupal 9 and replaced by the Config Ignore 3 community-supported project that provides the same functionality.

A new contrib module that makes it easy for content editors to create Media Entities from existing Files.

Caching issues can be one of the hardest things to track down in a website. This is especially the case when you have external caches involved that can't be entirely replicated on a local stack, like AWS's ElastiCache Redis in clustered mode!

This year DrupalGov is virtual. The PreviousNext team is sponsoring and helping to run the DrupalGov 2020 Sprint Day on Wednesday 4 November, and there are a few things you can do now to hit the ground running on the day.