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How to set up a local development environment (LDE) for Drupal

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

You are probably interested in setting up a workign environment for Drupal-based projects or maybe you have new members in your development team, so the configuration of the correct development environment is a fundamental part of the process of working with Drupal, you are right. By reading this how-to guide, you will implement a complete and ready-to-go Drupal working environment ready for versions 8, 9, and 10 of our favorite CMS/framework. Do you want to start?…

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Five basic things I've learned using GraphQL in Drupal

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

You’ve probably heard of “decoupled Drupal” or “headless”, a way of working with Drupal that consists of separating the frontend from the backend, implementing communication between both parts as separate projects, distinct repositories, etc. Usually, this way of working necessarily involves “breaking the monolith” i.e. splitting into several parts of different technology, leaving Drupal only for the backend side of the project. In this context, you will use some kind of specification or API connection to make backend and frontend work well and …

Books/ 31 Days of Drupal Migrations

Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Of all the APIs available in Drupal, the Migrate API may be one of the most hidden from the average Drupal user. It is even possible that, while reading this post, you discover for the first time that there is a whole set of Drupal modules, both core and contributed, fully dedicated to designing and running migration processes inside Drupal. You can move data from an old Drupal site to the most recent version, but also from other databases, files, systems, frameworks, CMSs, DXPs… and all of these options come together around the Drupal Migrate API. It is a set of resources that demands …

Condition Plugins for Visibility in Drupal 8-9

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hello there! In this new post I want to focus on a very interesting topic of Drupal, which pertains to its extension capabilities through its Plugins system. It is not a very extensive topic, but it is also true that there is not much documentation about it. This is a very common case when you’re building some kinds of Drupal Blocks to render specific data and you need that its visualization and its behaviour responds to special conditions.

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1- Introduction 2- What are Condition Plugins 3- Existing Condition …

Guide: How to integrate JavaScript in Drupal 8-9

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine that you have to integrate JavaScript code into your Drupal project… Where do you start? How do you do it? You’re looking for information but you don’t find anything “holistic”, something that goes from 0 to 100 and that puts in context how the relationships between Drupal and JavaScript are structured. Well, this article was made for you (Or for other people in your team that you want to introduce to this topic).

In this guide you will learn basic concepts of JavaScript, the terminology used in Drupal, functions, methods and common mechanics to enrich …

Books/ Drupal 9 Module Development

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

For a long time I wondered whether I should write a review of Drupal 8 Module Development, the previous edition of the current book. For me there were two important factors: on the one hand, it was a very ambitious book in scope and content, so writing a concise review was a real challenge. On the other hand, Drupal 9 was already on its way, and the book could quickly become outdated. Luckily, Drupal 9 has already arrived, and the transition from 8 to 9 has not been traumatic at all (there are still many people trapped in the crack between Drupal 7 and Drupal 8), but rather a fairly smooth …

Functional testing for Browser in Drupal 8-9 using PHPUnit

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Everything around Test-driven development (TDD) is a very interesting and very motivating world and besides, these are topics with a certain antiquity. So it is very easy to find related contents. But the relationship between this area and Drupal is even more interesting: there are multiple options to implement testing of different types and different orientation (Unit Test, Kernel, JavaScript, functional …) so it can be complex to introduce in this world. Today I want to take advantage of the experience of porting to Drupal 8 a small contributed module to share examples about …

Building Symfony events for Drupal

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I was preparing some events to intercept requests in Symfony and sharing some approaches with my colleagues. Then I discovered that in my environment the topic of Event Management in Drupal (dispatching events, subscribing events) was not very known, so I prepared some snippets to share and from there I thought to write some introductory article. Undoubtedly, in the latest versions of Drupal, certain components of Symfony have not only made their appearance, but also have been gaining importance and surely this will extend further in time, given its elasticity and fully integrated OOP …

Drupal Backend Workshop in Drupal Day Spain 2019

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I write these lines (or I start them) just as I return from Drupal Day Spain 2019, which this year took place in the city of Zaragoza. I’m typing while I recreate in my head various anecdotes, details, conversations and above all, learning.

It has been a very enriching meeting and I liked it very much from a technical point of view, but now I want to write mainly about what has been my personal contribution to the encounter: an introduction workshop to the backend of Drupal 8. This year, the event has been organized in the city of Zaragoza, capital of the “autonomous …