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Performance improvements with Drupal 8 Libraries

For a long time I’ve been compiling my Sass into a single CSS file - styles.css, but recently, with our component based design/frontend process and Drupal 8’s lovely Library system I’ve been wondering if the single file was still a good idea. Looking at the amount of unused CSS loading into any given page was a little bit painful.

Rikki BochowFront end Developer

Testing sort order with BrowserTestBase

Just a quick post to share a simple way to assert some markup is ordered correctly using BrowserTestBase

Lee RowlandsSenior Developer

Component based design with Paragraphs and Field formatters

A common problem that I’ve faced, particularly in the last few years, is how to deliver the complex, component driven design that clients want while also giving content authors full flexibility with those components without creating an un-maintainable, or brittle product.

Adam BramleySenior Developer

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.

Pasan GamageDrupal Developer

Makefile builds great again

This is a story of why we have migrated from Phing to Make.

Nick SchuchOperations Lead

Lifting the Lid on our Containers

We have been running containers in production for more than a year now and want to share some of the lessons learnt, by open sourcing our container suite.

Nick SchuchOperations Lead

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.

Kim PepperCo-Founder & Tech Director

PreviousNext speakers at DrupalGov Canberra 2017

The PreviousNext team are gearing up for our annual pilgrimage to DrupalGov Canberra, being held on Monday March 27 at the QT Hotel. With more than 200 tickets already sold, the conference is set to be one of the largest Drupal events in the Southern Hemisphere and a testament to how significant Drupal is now within the Australian Government.

Owen LansburyCo-Founder & Chair

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.

Kim PepperCo-Founder & Tech Director